SwiftRiver is a platform that helps people make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time.

Filter & Verify Real-Time Data
In practice, SwiftRiver enables the filtering and verification of real-time data from channels like Twitter, SMS, Email and RSS feeds.

How DataSF.org, which publishes dozens of official data sets, is starting to transform life and politics in San Francisco

Welcome to our new environment data store, a bank of information, facts and figures on today's most pressing environmental issues. We've partnered with organisations including the World Resources Institute to bring you the latest data on climate change, natural resources, conservation, consumption, green living and more.

"Functional visualizations are more than innovative statistical analyses and computational algorithms. They must make sense to the user and require a visual language system that uses colour, shape, line, hierarchy and composition to communicate clearly and appropriately, much like the alphabetic and character-based languages used worldwide between humans." Matt Woolman Digital Information Graphics Goal VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.

I recently attended an excellent Made by Many event hosted at BBH which featured a re-presentation by Manuel Lima of his 2009 TED talk on data visualisation. Manuel is the curator of visualcomplexity.com and is an eloquent, modest, charming pioneer in this fascinating field. As a novice myself, I could not help wondering why we are all so immediately and instinctively attracted to the best of data visualisation.To start with, I’m sure there is some fundamental truth that for most of us data become meaningful only when we can see scale, change, patterns and relationships. Seeing is understanding.

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This is a self-initiated project based on the scenario – If the world were a village of 100 people. There are a few different versions of this text in circulation about the world’s statistics. I found the data very striking and neatly summarises the world that we live in. So I used information graphics to re-tell the story in another creative way. I designed a set of 20 posters, which contain most of the information. I used simple vector graphics that related to a statistic in order to present the information in the simplest and most accessible way.

Slate's Moneybox has an interactive map that shows job creation and loss throughout the US for the past two years. Watching it flow through each month's up and down definitely made the employment situation in the country clearer to me. Like any great visualization image and the legend make it very clear what's happening.

The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the high-resolution displays, small multiples. Editing and improving graphics. The data-ink ratio. Time-series, relational graphics, data maps, multivariate designs. Detection of graphical deception: design variation vs. data variation. Sources of deception. Aesthetics and data graphical displays.

This website is part of the Master's thesis The Form of Facts and Figures, developed by Christian Behrens in the Interface Design program at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. Its goal is the development of a design pattern taxonomy for the field of data visualization and information design.

An Introduction to Information Design

Today's consumer seems to have an insatiable appetite for information, but until recently making sense of all of that raw data was too daunting for most. Enter the new "visual scientists" who are turning bits and bytes of data -- once purely the domain of mathematicians and coders -- into stories for our digital age.

Veel indieners van een WOB-veroek houden de daaruit verkregen informatie voor zichzelf. Deze website moet daar verandering in aanbrengen door ruimte te bieden de vangst van wob-verzoeken te publiceren.

What if we have instant access to all the data in the world? (..) Official information providers long thought they could keep a monopoly on ‘quality’ information, but it is now obvious that they have lost that battle. The consumer isn’t interested in “quality”. He wants to know it all.

EagleFiler in a nutshell: 1. Main WindowWith a single keypress, import Web pages, mail messages, or any file on your Mac. 2. EagleFiler stores them in an open format: regular files and folders that are fully accessible to your other applications. 3. Optionally: encrypt the files, add tags, notes, color-coded labels, and other metadata. 4. Browse by folder or by tag, or use the live search to find the information you need (faster than Spotlight). 5. View, edit, or create documents directly in EagleFiler’s streamlined interface, or double-click to edit using another application.

I’ve learned that the World Bank now offers an API for several of its data sets on development, governance, and business conditions, plus a collection of photos.

GovTrack.us is a tool for you to keep tabs on the U.S. Congress. Use our feeds or research pending and past legislation. GovTrack is a community & open source project.

The Work of Jonathan Harris

Matt Cutts: «At the beginning of the day, write down the 1-2 things you really want to accomplish that day. That will help keep you on track.

The message of Mark Hurst’s new book, Bit Literacy: In an age of infinite bits, time and attention are the scarce resources. The solution is to constantly manage your bits with the goal of reaching an “empty” state.