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The Functional Art: learning with a smile on your face 15 Oct 2012 | 08:08 pm
This weekend finally my copy of The Functional Art arrived, Alberto Cairo’s long-awaited introduction to infographics and visualizations. Jubilant reviews can be found around the web (among others by ...
An icon for every noun in the world 11 Oct 2012 | 09:11 pm
How can I have missed this? Edward Boatman is the new Otto Neurath. As a design student in college he had a thought: “What if I had a sketch for every single object in the world?” After graduating he ...
Next Year’s Winner 8 Oct 2012 | 04:14 pm
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...
A Vault of Visualizations 25 Sep 2012 | 06:30 pm
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 inter...
The promise of Interactive Isotype 19 Sep 2012 | 02:56 pm
Some people are better in keeping their promises than other. I for instance promised myself to update this blog more regularly. Well, take a look at the date of the last post… However, Eugene Tjoa pro...
Interactive weather map… on TV 29 May 2012 | 06:52 am
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...
Semiotic engineering: how, when, and why to use this interactive 24 Apr 2012 | 06:14 am
Example of Ill-formed signs (Source: interaction-design.org) Semiotics is the study of signs. It is not an institutionalized academic discipline but a wide range of theories that are used by scholars...
Edward Segel: interactive features should scream interactivity 4 Apr 2012 | 03:50 am
In my presentation on e-learning research last week I made a short reference to Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data, the famous article by Edward Segel and Jeffrey Heer. Today, Marije R...
How e-learning research can benefit dataviz design 31 Mar 2012 | 03:49 am
Yesterday I had the honor to speak at the Show me the Data 2012, a conference in Amsterdam that also featured talks by Alberto Cairo and Jan Willem Tulp. In my presentation I explained how in my opini...
Isotype Interactive 23 Mar 2012 | 09:24 am
For a moment, I thought it was a coincidence. A few months ago I became fascinated by Isotype, the pictorial language created in the 1920s and 1930s. Within the span of a week, I found out that severa...
