Oct 08
Take one look at the laureates of the Information is Beautiful Award that were announced last week and you know the visualization community is as international and cosmopolitan as it gets. Winners are based around the world, from the United States (Stamen) and the United Kingdom (Peter Jeffs), to Germany (Moritz Stefaner), Italy (Michele Mauri), …
Sep 25
Many will agree that The New York Times and The Guardian are important – maybe the most important – pioneers when it comes to the use of interactive visualizations in journalism. Therefore it is interesting to compare these two newspapers. How do they manage the production of their interactives? And what are the similarities and …
May 28
No other genre in journalism is more intertwined with infographics than the weather. It’s hard to find a newspaper or a news show that doesn’t use icons, charts and maps to forecast temperatures, wind speeds and the chance of rain. Interactivity can add a lot of value to weather maps and charts, for instance by …
Mar 04
Although this blog is about interactive infographics, I’m interested in other aspects of information visualization as well. Lately, as the previous post indicates, I have been studying Isotype as a forerunner of infographic design. Earlier I wrote about my fascination with animated infographics or explanimations. Logically, I was very happy with a presentation by Ekaterina …
Feb 16
In reply to my previous post about the functions of interactivity Eugene Tjoa advocates more attention to explanation in interactive infographics. I totally agree with him. Information visualization has a very fruitful influence on the design of infographics but most infovis techniques are developed for specialists, not for a general audience. Furthermore, there are no …
Feb 14
My research is about the effectiveness of interactives. One thing I’m interested in is the influence of the type and number of interactive features on the ability of an infographic to transfer information. But before you can study this influence, you first have to define what these ‘interactive features’ actually are. Different typologies are possible. …
Jun 28
Remember when you went to high school loaded with a bag full of heavy textbooks? Well, those days are over. In this TED talk software developer Mike Matas demonstrates the tablet version of Our Choice, the sequel to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. And guest what, this full-length interactive book for the iPad features some …
Jun 20
There are all kinds of reasons for adding interactivity to an infographic. After I asked Dutch designers what they considered to be the best interactives on the web, I questioned them about their ideas about the function of interactivity. An incomplete list of recurring keywords would look like this: to make a graphic more comprehensible …
Jun 16
What are the most inspiring interactive infographics on the web? It was just one of the questions I asked Dutch infographic designers in a survey I conducted earlier this year. A total of 39 respondents together submitted 90 best practices, either entire websites or specific interactive infographics. Some of them are well known examples, others …
Feb 26
Andrew and Louis are two computer engineers from Minneapolis who wanted to know where their tax money went. So they collected the data and put them on WhatWePayFor.com. That are a lot of data. So now Google and art and technology center Eyebeam have created a dataviz challenge for designers to visualize how individual federal …
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