November 2010
17 posts
Mapping the Health, Knowledge and Standard of... →
Measure of America [measureofamerica.org] aims to stimulate fact-based discussion about issues regarding the topics of Health, Education and Income. By encouraging for a greater…
WikiLeaks Cable Gate: the Visualizations and the... →
There is the data, and there is the understanding. Somewhere in the middle, the communication. Also visual. See a list of current visualizations of the WikiLeaks Cable Gate data below. …
A Day in the Life of the (Polluted) Ocean →
The movie “A Day In The Life Of Mister O.” represents the ocean as an abstract representation portrayed through a human, who pursues and executes his daily business. The 8-minute long film…
Explaining Education Reform Issues through... →
It is a pity that the following project is only available in German, but I hope it nevertheless still is able to demonstrate the power of interactive infographics to decompose and…
What is Data Visualization? →
What is Data Visualization? How can it be explained through a visual diagram? Can data visualization be… visualized? David McCandless answered this recursive issue on his impressive blog…
Reverse Engineering the Transaction Processes... →
The concept of political war charts, or using visualization to obfuscate meaning and communication in general, is not particularly new. For instance, at least one seemingly incomprehensible…
The Evolution of Popular Science Magazine over the... →
Following his recent definition of “media visualization”, Lev Manovich and his students have developed various visualizations about media collections that aim to retain the presence of…
Research: GeneaQuilts - A System for Exploring... →
The academic paper titled GeneaQuilts: A System for Exploring Large Genealogies [aviz.fr] presents a novel data visualization technique for representing large genealogies of up to…
Products of Slavery: Revealing Child and Forced... →
Products of Slavery [productsofslavery.org] is an online visualization that takes the data (PDF) from a report of the U.S. Department of Labor on child and forced labor worldwide, and…
Your Chance to Cut the U.S. Budget Deficit →
Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget [nytimes.com] is an interesting take on using (simple) data visualization as a participative communication medium that can provide valuable insight to the…
Visualizing Career Paths in an Organic Tree... →
Newsweek (Beast) shows how careers of education and work life can be represented by the metaphor of a tree and its branches [newsweek.com] (go left, right behind the advertisements)….
Research: Tracking and Visualizing Global... →
Researchers at City University London’s giCentre [city.ac.uk]have developed a new interactive visualization tool which visually analyzes centuries of global storm activity in order to…
The Bold and the Beautiful Explained in 6 Minutes →
The title says it all. The story lines of the whole series of “The Bold and the Beautiful” soap, which includes over 5,500 episodes in 23 years, has been described in about 6 minutes of…
Menstruation Visualization: Plotting the Rhythm of... →
Design student Brigitte Coremans has developed a pair of clocks [brigittecoremans.com] that visualize the female reproductive cycle. The pieces titled ‘Life Clock’ and ‘Menstruation…
Decoded Conference 2010: in Review →
On October 23, the decoded conference took place in Munich for the first time, and I (i.e. Moritz Stefaner) was fortunate enough to be among the invited speakers. The topics ranged from…
Research: Mapping the Impact of Traffic on the... →
Donald Appleyard was a professor of Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley. During his career he pursued a strong interest in the livability of cities and neighborhoods,…