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Look ma, no flash! 9 Aug 2013 | 06:28 pm
We reworked the OECD Better Life index. Besides a general facelift and interface overhaul (top work by Raureif, as usual), more languages (Spanish and Russian), the biggest change has been to replace ...
Keynote at European Communication Summit 6 Aug 2013 | 01:34 pm
My speech from the summit. No big surprises for long-time followers, but a good summary overall, I guess. Also, I wear a suit!
Stadtbilder — mapping the digital shape of cities 25 May 2013 | 04:07 pm
Stadtbilder (“city images”) is a new little side project of mine — an attempt to map the digital shape of cities. I am increasingly fascinated by the idea of mapping the “real world” — life and cultur...
Interview for Nathan Yau’s new book “Data Points” 25 Apr 2013 | 02:47 am
Nathan Yau’s new book “Data Points” is out, and while I am still waiting for a copy, here is already a short contribution I made — a few paragraphs of bla: With client work, you must hear “innovative”...
Gender balance visualization 18 Apr 2013 | 12:58 pm
So, I made this thing on how many women speakers we have on stage at the type of conferences I like to go to. Personally, I think our field is probably already quite grown-up in respect of diversity a...
“Weltbilder” master course 16 Apr 2013 | 05:28 pm
This semester, I taught a master course on information visualization at HfK Bremen. It was quite fun and I think I was able improve a bit on the teaching side compared to the first full course I taugh...
Look ma, no story! 6 Apr 2013 | 06:35 pm
Storytelling has been one of the big buzzwords in data visualization the last year. By now, there are even whole conferences about the topic and I heard even some podcasts carry the word in their name...
Resonet 18 Mar 2013 | 06:30 pm
Resonet is an attempt to map the twitter community around the resonate festival, using a technique similar to the vizosphere I made earlier. This time around, I used a zoomable SVG map, which makes te...
Where people move in Germany 6 Dec 2012 | 04:49 pm
A quick diversion based on Bing search results for the phrase “von X nach Y gezogen” (“moved from X to Y”) applied to the top 30 German cities. Made with Gephi and pattern.py Image Data Script
Mapping research excellence 6 Dec 2012 | 04:42 pm
Together with Lutz Bornmann and Rüdiger Mutz, I have been looking into which institutions (universities or research-focused institutions) are most active in different subject areas of science and whic...
