Design

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

As somebody anxiously following the latest situation of the Iceland volcanic ash cloud, I find it fascinating just how much emphasis and influence the visualisation output from the UK Met Office is having on the response. Whilst other information is of course being gathered and consulted, the overlayed ash cloud data on this map design

Nice piece of work from the Washington Post graphics team, presenting an effective small multiples/heatmap fusion to demonstrate how the financial crisis has impacted on a range of industries across the US in terms of job numbers. Each horizontal sections presents the ups and downs of the different industries. Each strip is a month’s increase

SoundAffects is an experiential project collaboration between mono, Parsons The New School for Design and Tellart. The purpose of this ten day project is to capture real-time city data and translate this in to a musical and visualisation representation, helping us explore and think about cities in new ways. The hub of this New York

Pablo from Spanish developers Undefined has sent me details of a new project he and his colleagues created for the Radio Televisión Espanola website. This interactive creation visualises Twitter activity surrounding the Eurovision song contest, which took place last Saturday 14th, as well as the historic patterns of competition voting and final rankings. Developed in