Design

Followers of my Twitter feed may have seen me post a link to a set of Flickr images collated by Professor Michael Stoll, of the Department of Design at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences. Having browsed around the rest of his incredible collections and sets I decided it necessary to capture this work in a […]

The excellent visualisation work of Eric Fischer will be familiar to many of you. During the summer he produced a stunning set of maps for 30 cities which displayed the locations of Twitter messages overlayed with the locations of uploaded Flickr photos. His latest project continues to explore Flickr data, this time visualising the seasonal

Just wanted to quickly share this. I can’t believe I’ve managed to miss this site for so long but, thanks to a profile on the superb Graphic Sociology, I’ve finally discovered Bill Rankin’s ‘Radical Cartography’ – a fascinating and inspirational collection of innovative map visualisation from his own portfolio and designs from a number of

Last month I shared details of the WordPress 2011 ‘State of the Word’ – founder Matt Mullenweg’s annual overview of the headlines, facts and figures relating to the utilisation of the opensource web/blog tool. I also shared news that data from the first ever WordPress user and developer survey was being made available and designers

I’d just got comfortable and in place to watch the Sunday afternoon football on Sky Sports, looking forward to having a bit of mental breathing space from all things data visualisation, when up pops these two graphics… The first graph compares results of QPR vs Aston Villa matches at Loftus Road (QPR’s home ground) and

You may recall about a year ago a new concept was launched for the BBC by design consultancy Berg in collaboration with Max Gadney. This project was called BBC Dimensions and aimed to explore new ways of using digital media to relate stories and facts from history and current affairs. Today, Berg announced details of the

The latest fabulous project from the Moritz Stefaner visualisation factory came off the production line yesterday. In collaboration with Christopher Warnow, and other partners, the Max Planck Research Networks multi-touch installation represents the nature of connectivity across Max Planck Institutes and with international partners. It is now on display at the Max Planck Science Gallery

Google Correlate is an interesting new experiment on Google Labs which allows you to draw a data series and get back results of search query trends which match your drawn pattern. As the diagram above shows, you use a pen tool to sketch out an interesting curve shape and then press the Correlate! button to

TwitterVision is a novel research project commissioned by UK laser eye surgery specialists Ultralase which aims to reveal the state of the nation’s eyesight using Twitter to plot people’s eye prescriptions. The application merges user-submitted prescription data from structured tweets with Ultralase’s own in-house data, in order to visualise the UK’s eyesight quality in an