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Datavisualization Tools

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

Data visualization tools grow steep in numbers. Difficult to catch up with all developments. Datavisualization.ch has a nice overview over some of these.

Climate Vulnerability Monitor

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Interesting & informative data portal on environmental and climate change/vulnerability stuff. Well presented.

Global Population Growth

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

Nice graphic from here.

Brockhaus Infografiken

Monday, January 21st, 2013

Die Brockhaus Encyclopedia Infografiken. Im neuen Brockhaus sind ein paar Dutzend Infografiken integriert. Sehr schön gemacht, so sieht’s aus.

Your Warming World

Monday, January 21st, 2013

Interesting, interactive map of the world from NASA to show global/local temperature changes.”The heat is on for the planet as a whole, but what has been happening where you live? Click a place on the map to find out, or enter a location in the search box in the top right-hand corner.”

Simple, Nice Graphics

Friday, January 18th, 2013

Pretty simple, but attractive and clean graphics.

A Clickable Guide to the World’s Energy Use

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

A clickable guide to the world’s energy use. Nice animation from Nature.

Icon-Finder

Friday, November 23rd, 2012

Nice tool to find a wide range of icons.

Grants Chart

Thursday, November 22nd, 2012

Nice chart creation by Hewlett for their grant program. Really interesting and well done!

WWF’s Interactive Mindmap

Tuesday, November 20th, 2012

Interesting application: Bringing the mindmap to the web. Interactive. Very smooth. But not sure if I would use it; if I would have the patience to click through the different items.

How to Visualize and Compare Distributions

Thursday, November 15th, 2012

Nice tutorial with a few interesting ideas about how to display distributions.

Excel: Making a Panel Chart (Instead of a Broken Chart)

Friday, November 9th, 2012

Interesting idea to use a “panel chart” instead of a broken chart.

Al Gore’s Our Choice

Monday, August 13th, 2012

Since a couple of years I have the idea to produce an interactive book with great photos, videos and really interactive charts. Here is one which seems to be very good…

Energy Flows

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

Very nice interactive graph, which shows the energy flows. Transport, heating, etc.

Posters with Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Photos

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Very, very nice.

Creating (Small-Sized) PDFs with InDesgin/Distiller

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Interesting solution to a problem… here.

Adobe Illustrator: Curly Brackets

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

a. Use the Symbol font. It has several parts of curly and straight braces and parentheses, designed to stack upon eachother with zero extra leading (or slightly less, if you want a smaller brace).

b. Put these into an Anchored object, anchored somewhere at an appropriate place, so its frame will always keep the same relative position to its text.

c. Well, it oughta look like this. On the left: a frame with three parts of a curly brace. In the middle: some random math. The top line “contains” the anchored object, as can be seen by the ¥ sign. On the right, the anchored object itself, positioned relatively to its anchor.


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Dynamic Coding

Friday, March 2nd, 2012


Bret Victor demos some great looking software that connects code to the visual, making the creation process more visceral, and he finishes up with worhtwhile thoughts on the invention process.

Graphics – Before and After

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Here just two examples of graphs which were supposed to go into a report (left) and which got a little bit of a face lifting (right)… (data visualization)

HTML/CSS: Nice Boxes Around Your Elements

Thursday, January 12th, 2012




Nice examples for boxes around HTML elements here.