Infographics tools for anyone – and anything
Seeing sites like re.vu, and vizualize.me makes me really happy. I am glad these sites and many, many more simple to use sites that makes data and information come alive exists. You can even use these tools that imports data from other popular (social) sites as quick tools for making your own fast, but really cool presentation...
QlikView margins
QlikView is absolutely wonderful. Giving access to data this way deserves standing applause. The enterprises using QlikView gets access to compare, analyze, find relations and display data in a very convenient way. However, as an information designer I find the lack of typographic control and especially margins frustrating. And to be honest I find it...
I wanna go eyeo
Eyeofestival seems like the one place to go this year. All the speakers are absolutely awesome. And all in one place. From the early launch site: eyeo brings together the most creative coders, designers and artists working today, and shaping tomorrow – expect an amazing three days of talks, labs, demos & events fueled by...
Graphs
So graphs (and its companion graph theory) are apparently the talk of the town. Cool. Graph based databases (neo4j) and other related graph based things are popping up in places where complexity is high and low. I found graph theory mindtickling a couple of months ago when I read an extremely basic introduction to it...
Visualization clinic
Great fun discussing and debating visualisations in general and some ongoing projects in particular at MEDEA at Malmö Högskola today. Thanks Jonas for having us at MEDEA. We hoped to see some more people from Tibco and Google but it came out as a great day anyway. Read more about it here.
Project Visual Enterprise
Some words about this project since it is about to come to public attention anyway through a European Union connected exhibition (For the Moment) that is going from Stockholm, Sweden, Malmö, Sweden (for the closing of the swedish chairmanship of EU) and to Mirano, Brussels (swedish embassy). Visual Enterprise is shown in the company of...
The revelation of the complex
Design is choice. ”What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult–that is, the revelation of complexity.” Edward R. Tufte
