After 2 very similar posts in a very small timeframe, featuring Easel.ly and infogr.am respectively, I seem not to be able to follow the ‘automatic infographics editing’ scene fast enough. Automatic resume infographics creator visualize.me has just launched Venngage [venngage.com], which aims to empower people to create beautiful infographics in minutes, so that “creating infographics ...
FatFonts [fatfonts.org] is a novel numeric typeface for data visualization purposes. The design of FatFonts is based on Arabic numerals, but the amount of ink (i.e. dark pixels) used for each digit is proportional to its quantitative value. This font enables the reading of numerical data while still preserving an overall visual context. The typeface ...
The following post seems particularly useful for people that are relatively new in the field of data visualization and might consider developing their own graphs or interactive applications. Should you program or not? What tools should currently exist? What visualization frameworks are available? The good people of the Swiss website called datavisualisation present “A Carefully ...
Müsli Ingredient Network [stefaner.eu] is a graphic meant for the print medium that shows how the customers of the German start-up MyMuesli tend to combine different müsli ingredients together. Although one of the smaller projects designed by “truth and beauty operator” Moritz Stefaner, it still offers a small set of information graphics, such as a ...
Inspired by the animated wind map that was posted a little while ago, professional programmer Jeff Clark has explored how people move about in a city. The result, titled Movement in Manhattan [neoformix.com], visualizes the speed and direction of Twitter users in Manhattan, New York. The visualization is based on a large collection of geo-located ...
The online visualization titled “3.1415926535897932384626…” [two-n.com] by design studio TWO-N represents the first 4,000,000 decimals of the number Pi within a single image. Each unique digit of Pi corresponds to a specific color, and is rendered as a 1×1 pixel dot. The result is a long, random-looking pixel carpet image. Next to a dedicated slider ...
Global Migration Patterns [mpg.de] by the German Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity contains a set of interactive instruments that visualize the latest global migration data. The “International Migration Flows shows the different flows to – and from – selected OECD-countries between the years 1970-2007. It illustrates the concept of ...
There is something strangely mesmerizing about maps with a lot of dots. The project Mapping Wikipedia [tracemedia.co.uk] consists of an interactive world map that reveals all geo-coded Wikipedia articles that are published in at least 1 of 7 different languages: English, French, Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, Swahili. The impressive visualization was developed by TraceMedia using an ...