With the current variety of media channels, visual information has become an indispensable tool of communication. Here is my new book – the atlas of infographics
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Interview Jer Thorp: “Let the data speak”
For a few years now, Canadian-born Jer Thorp has been working on the forefront of data visualisation, creating ever new ways to interact with vast data sets. Operating under the title of a “data artist”, Jer has recently teamed up with Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin to form the Office of Creative Research. During the…
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Interview Moritz Stefaner: “The city is alive”
Moritz Stefaner came to the field of data visualisation with a background in cognitive science and interface design. His works are intriguing in their effort to create a comprehensible visual vocabulary for mapping complex data. In his latest project “Stadtbilder”, the German designer visualised geolocation data for three German cities, with the aim to show…
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The Wind Map by Viégas & Wattenberg
Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas have been working in data visualisation for many years now and are currently leading Google’s “Big Picture” research visualisation group. In 2012, they created a great personal project: The “Wind Map”. It visualises in realtime winds blowing across the United States. At the time of writing this post, strong winds…
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Inspiration: “Onezoom” tree of life
So, as everyone talks about big data and everyone’s putting together large structured databases: How do you actually USE this abundance of information? How do you MAKE SENSE of it? Over the past few years, biologists and evolution theorists have gathered highly complex databases about biodiversity on Earth – not just now, but throughout the…
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