Interactive Infographic: Change in Energy Sources
While I usually do not click on “sponsored content,” the recent article “The Great Transition” in The Atlantic was an example of a well-designed...
Author: Heiko Spallek
Why do type foundries invent new fonts?
Steven Heller writes in the The Atlantic about type foundries and their desire to come up with new fonts. It is a fun piece to read with the memorable quote:...
What’s Possible for Health Care
The IOM report “Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America” is certainly a worthwhile reading for anybody in health...
Diagrams and Maps by John Grimwade
John Grimwade is not only the graphics director at Conde Naste Traveler magazine, but runs his own infographic business. He shares on...
MOOC: Final Project Completed
I just completed my first MOOC “Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization” where I have learned new techniques for visualizations (see previous...
Hanging Punctuation
Many of you might know some things about typography. For instance, most people adhere to rules, like “Always use sans serif fonts for digital displays!” or...
Timeline Chart
Recent history is usually boring and nobody wants to read long reports or complicated lists of events. Intrigued by an idea from Dr. Lynn Johnson, I have...
Gephi – The Open Graph Viz Platform
According to the Gephi Website, this free open-source graph software is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and...
Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science Competition
This post is not about a cool visualization, but about a call for explaining science combined, potentially, with a visualization. A recent New York Times...
New York Times about Nicholas Felton
The technology section of the New York Times shows a video titled “Nicholas Felton: A Quantified Life” describing Nicholas Felton’s obsession with data....
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