“A 25-minute documentary on the visual design of the London tube map, which is also coined as “The pinnacle of London Transport’s modernist design”, invented by an unemployed engineering draftsman, Harry Beck.” (information aesthetics)

“This is the first book to draw together the wide range of maps produced over the last 30 years or so to provide a comprehensive atlas of cyberspace and the infrastructure that supports it. Over the next 300 or so pages, more than 100 different mapping projects are detailed, accompanied by full-colour example maps and an explanation as to how they were created.” (Martin Dodge & Rob Kitchin) – courtesy of information aesthetics

“(…) in the presentation I argue two things: one — that the more sophisticated applications of interactive data visualization resemble games and toys in many ways, and two — that game design can contribute to the solutions to several design issues I have detected in the field of data visualization.” (Kars Alfrink – Leapfroglog)

“I tried to add a comment there with some blogs I subscribe to (some already mentioned, some not) but I suspect the spam filter thought I was nuts to try posting 20 links. So here are a few other blogs/feeds you might like, if you like Flowing Data (…)” (Random Etc.)

“E15 is a research project. Imagine an internet where you (not the site designer) were able to decide how to view and experience web content. Imagine an internet where web servers didn’t just give you a static chunk of html, css, and javascript, but exactly the content you asked for. Imagine navigating an internet where the content maintained a degree of spatial relevance. E15 is a platform that enables end users to experience this internet, an internet beyond the browser.” (MIT Media Lab)

“On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Ben Shneiderman gave a talk at HCID on the topic of information visualisation for high-dimensional spaces. Over 100 people from industry and academia attended the talk. (…) Interactive information visualization provide researchers with remarkable tools for discovery. By combining powerful data mining methods with user-controlled interfaces, users are beginning to benefit from these potent telescopes for high-dimensional spaces. They can begin with an overview, zoom in on areas of interest, filter out unwanted items, and then click for details-on-demand. With careful design and efficient algorithms, the dynamic queries approach to data exploration can provide 100msec updates even for million-record databases.” (Center for HCI Design) – courtesy of usabilitynews

“User Interface designer with a focus on information visualization in conjunction with statistical methods and machine learning. Theoretical background in cognitive sciences. Years of professional experience as a web producer, designer, team leader.” (Moritz Stefaner) – courtesyofpetermorville

“When the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published the first version of his Periodic Table of the Elements in 1869, he couldn’t imagine that it would become in due time one of the most outstanding information visualisations and that many fields would use it more than one century later as a visual metaphor.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – InfoVis)

Interactive map covering areas such as Data, Information, Concept, Strategy, Metaphor, and Compound Visualization. (visual-literacy.org)

“Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of these websites is defined in HTML, the lingua franca for publishing information on the web. Your browser’s job is to render the HTML according to the specs (most of the time, at least). You can look at the code behind any website by selecting the ‘View source’ tab somewhere in your browser’s menu. (…) I’ve written a little app that visualizes such a graph, and here are some screenshots of websites that I often look at.” (WebasGraph app by Aharef) – courtesy of edwardtufte

“Visualising time or, best said, visualising the events that occur in time, is not so usual a topic. There aren’t so many visual metaphors associated to it either. We take a look at them here.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“Visual strategy, understood as the coordination of eye and head movements in order to perform a visual task when looking at our environment, turns out to be a feature as personal as the way we walk or write. Information visualisation enables the creation of a visual map that makes the way we see easily understandable.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“The tool is built around the basic idea that a pie chart can represent a simple yes or no decision. In this case, the decision is one often faced by managers in a tight baseball game: Should the pitcher be pulled from the game?” (visual i|o) – courtesy of bokardo

“The information age is now an electronic age. Books, magazines and newspapers, business and government records, music, movies, email — all are stored as electronic files that can only be read, played, or watched by people with the right hardware and software. Over time, changes in technology can make digital information simply incapable of being accessed. Furthermore, without separate authentication standards, digital information becomes untrustworthy. On both legal and historical grounds, people need to be able to verify a document’s provenance and data integrity.” (Dynamic Diagrams)

“Viewing the Miles Davis composition All Blues through the lens of ImproViz illustrates the contrasting melodic and harmonic styles of three musicians: Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley and John Coltran.” (Jon Snydal – Offhand Designs) – courtesy of jasonkottke

“Visual Communication is a key component of interface design and unfortunately often under-represented in interaction design methodologies. This talk introduces the core principles of Visual Communication (with an emphasis on Visual Organization) and through many practical examples details how they can be put to use during the Web application interface design process.” (Luke Wroblewski – Functioning Form)

“Animation permits the representation of change, including time in the visual equation. In this issue, we review the basic variables of animation and the profit we can extract from its use.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – InfoVis!)

“After some years of a certain dispersion of resources we now have some advanced toolkits that contain diverse components within architectures that allow you to reuse components and the creation of sophisticated applications without having to reinvent the most advanced techniques, like Treemaps or semantic zooming user interfaces. Although it can appear to be very bound to the academic world, these toolkits offer to many software developing companies the possibility to include sophisticated visualisations in their product portfolio thus beginning to use ‘visual thinking’ in the same, with a reduced cost of approximation to those technologies, since you don’t need to program algorithms, you just use them in your product.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – InfoVis)

“Undoubtedly, music is one of the most engaging and emotionally powerful stimuli. Listening to music can have strong effects on people’s mood, thinking and even their physiology. I think it’s mainly because of the latter that certain songs remind us so vividly of a specific memory.” (Didier Hilhorst – nundroo)

“Information Visualization aims to provide compact graphical presentations and user interfaces for interactively manipulating large numbers of items. We present a simple ‘data by tasks taxonomy’ then discuss the challenges of providing universal usability, with example applications using geo-referenced data. Information Visualization has been shown to be a powerful visual thinking or decision tool but it is becoming important for services to reach and empower every citizen. Technological advances are needed to deal with user diversity (…) but also with the variety of technology used (…) and the gaps in user’s knowledge (general knowledge, knowledge of the application domain, of the interface syntax or semantic). We present examples that illustrate how those challenges can be addressed.” (Catherine Plaisant – Univ. of Maryland – HCIL) – courtesy of usabilityviews