visualizations Archive

  • Tresnak :: Tools – taller de visualització a Arteleku (Donosti) – L’entrevista

    Tresnak :: Tools – taller de visualització a Arteleku (Donosti) – L’entrevista

    Recentment el Mar Canet i jo hem fet un més dels nostres tallers de visualització de dades. Aquesta vegada ha estat a Donosti, convidats per Arteleku/Tabakalera. Aquí la info del taller >> I aquí una entrevista que m’han fet la gent de Euskasi Innova >> Charles Joseph Minard – Marxa a Moscou (publicada per primera [...]

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  • 2 videos: “Nanobosc” & “Intimidad”

    2 videos: “Nanobosc” & “Intimidad”

    The imaginary worlds, virtual or not, are flowing up and capturing my eye. I’m presenting here 2 collaborations I did for 2 amazing videos. First one is Nanobosc, a project for the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology, by Pr Victor F. Puntes in collaboration with Ux Hax. It is a imaginary nano forest made out of nanoparticles [...]

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  • #Opendata: notes on the way to (II)

    #Opendata: notes on the way to (II)

    In a past entry I porpose to consider a dataset as something similar to software code. This time I wanna go one step forward talking about free visualization. Opendata means you can access to a dataset and use it. What you can do with the data depends on the license that the publisher decides. I [...]

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  • Why “sometimes I hate” infographics

    Why “sometimes I hate” infographics

    Ready… In the growing map of data visualization field, I use to be a visualization tools developer; from there I speak about infographics and more. There are several definitions and differences between visualization of information and infographics. I will use visualization as software-logic base representation of information and infographics as a free drawing technique, that means it [...]

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  • #Opendata: notes on the way to (I)

    #Opendata: notes on the way to (I)

    Opendata world is here! After the age of hardware, came the age of software. From now on the age of data is here. Why Now? World Bank Is Opening Its Treasure Chest of Data At least, this is a funny reason for a ephemeral As a visualization tools and interface fan, since sometime ago I took [...]

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  • Europeana Sources Visualization

    Europeana Sources Visualization

    Last 8th & 9th of june I have been in the #hack3europe. A one day and a half hacking arround the largest european art data archive: Europeana. I see Europeana as the most promising project in getting real benefits from open data era. Right now the Europeana‘s API is very simple. You can see it needs a [...]

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  • Com la visualització, va entrant .  .    .

    Com la visualització, va entrant . . .

    La visualitació de dades va entrant, mai millor dit, de mica en mica a les nostres vides. aquesta es una d’aquelles visualitzacions que es deixar jugar. (per a catalans cal dir que sempre hi ha el consol de pensar que si no ens posessin amb Espanya la cosa seria diferent

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  • David McCandless on the Beauty of Data Visualization, On TED.com

    David McCandless on the Beauty of Data Visualization, On TED.com

    Because sometimes is not easy to explain wtf I work on: David McCandless is known as the ‘data journalist’ behind the impressive book The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World’s Most Consequential Trivia and the blog Information is Beautiful. In a short amount of time, he has proven to be able to turn [...]

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  • The future of the archives

    The future of the archives

    Workshop and round table, 1st July 2010 @ CCCB, inside CCCBlab ICI (Investigació i innovació en l’àmbit cultural). Barcelona (CAT) Second workshop 13th July The CCCB has worked on the digitization of its documentary for more than three years. It is now fully searchable and offers to the visitors the materials of the activities organized [...]

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  • Visualització de dades: nou directori de recursos (en construcció)

    Visualització de dades: nou directori de recursos (en construcció)

    L’amic Mar Canet, de derivart, ha començat un llistat de recursos sobre visualització de dades. Els que ens dediquem a visulitzar dades sabem com de nou es aquest camp i és precisament per això, que la idea del Mar és, com gairebé sempre, molt bona. M’he compromés, juntament amb dáltre gent, en anar afegint més [...]

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