Wahl 2Q17 was a joint effort by data visualization freelancers Moritz Stefaner, Dominikus Baur and Christian Laesser, with the Google News Lab (Isa Sonnenfeld, Jörg Pfeiffer and Simon Rogers) and project advisor Alberto Cairo.
Our goal was to visualize the Google search interest around the German elections end September 2017.
I’m currently thinking (and reading) a lot about the implications of a data-driven society. Data collection is taking a foothold in our daily lives, through social media but even more so through the internet of things. …
(This is part 2. Read part 1 on augmented reality visualizations here.)
Every time I read some article on Augmented Reality or see it pop up in a movie/TV show, it looks like this:
Nothing screams future like neon colors and flashy animations. And I don’t excuse myself for that…
(This is part 1. Read part 2 on creating silent augmented reality here.)
Data visualization on mobile devices seemed promising, since the time of the first iPhone: very capable portable computers! Innovative touch interaction! Highly localized content! Hundreds of visualizations for mobile devices exist, both as apps and part of…
Apple’s ad campaign for Planet of the Apps might be about more than outrage
A few days ago, Apple launched their first TV show “Planet of the Apps” to great fanfare. It’s more or less a spin-off of “Shark Tank” with teams of developers pitching their app ideas to an…
What we think about as static — visualizations or any other medium — does not, and even: cannot exist. Reading and understanding turns everything interactive.
Let’s take a simple example to make my point, one “static” visualization that is almost cliché: Napoleon’s march by Minard.
This graphic has been thrown…
“The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. One hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!” — Kurt Tucholsky, Französischer Witz (1925)
After writing about the potential death of interactive visualizations, I want to touch on why they’re still absolutely worth it.
(This is a write-up of the talk I gave at INCH Munich on March 11 )
(edit: Gregor released a new blog post, clarifying some of the aspects and made some great points on the benefits of interactivity)
Last year I was lucky enough to go to the Information+ conference…
Recently, I’ve stumbled upon this interesting article about evolution or atheism or something (I don’t quite remember what it was), but I do remember that it tugged at my heartstrings in just the right way. The first few sentences just brought the point beautifully across, a point which my mind…
data visualization and interaction designer and developer. background in germanisms. https://do.minik.us
