At the recent TED conference, Pattie Maes presented Sixth Sense, a wearable device that projects images on the users’ environment, opening some really cool possibilities for data interaction with real life objects. Lots of people are comparing it to Minority Report, but to me it more closely resembles the world described by Vernor Vinge [...]

Stamen Design just released their latest work, an interactive hurricane tracker for MSNBC, just in time for Gustav.

Great interactive visualization in my opinion. Hover your mouse over different parts of the track to get specific information about that part of the visualization. This visualization will no doubt go [...]

Over the last week or so I’ve spent most of my free time surfing the web looking at visual thinking websites, focusing mostly on information visualization, or InfoVis, as some call it. Wow, there is some really cool stuff out there. Anybody who has been involved in that discipline for very long is no doubt [...]

Karen Martin drew this map to visualize the relationships between the disciplines in urban computing. Some of these disciplines are the same disciplines I’ve got listed in my visual thinking taxonomy and seeing this map makes me wonder if a similar map of the visual thinking landscape might be a good way to go.

I thought this was an interesting take on my attempt to classify and categorize all things Visual Thinking. The Emerging Technology conference just took place in San Diego the last few days. Eric Rodendeck of Stamen Design gave a presentation titled “Information Visualization is a Medium.” Wish I could have been there for [...]

Last night I was googling and checking out web sites about data visualization. Tons of really cool data visualization stuff out there that I’ll have to blog about in another post. But one of the most intriguing to me was the Web Trends mind map from Information Architects. I’ve seen this covered already on [...]

Another discipline of visual thinking that I think is really cool is scientific visualizations. I’m on the Apple RSS feed and that had a cool article about scientific visualizations being done at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The article is essentially a Mac promotion piece, but it has some interesting observations [...]

At the recent VizThink conference, I attended a couple of breakout sessions on mapping; Bruce Daniel’s “VizMaps: An Alternate Approach to Describing Where” and John Grimwade’s “Mapping the Possibilities.”

At the time, I wasn’t really sure what attracted me to these two mapping sessions, but reflecting upon it now, I think I was hoping that one [...]