The brazilian news site Estadão.com.br created a sankey visualization that analyzes the composition of the national football teams partecipating the world cups from 1994 to 2010. Thanks to this visualization it is possible to understand the import and export rates of each national team: it is in fact possible to relate the composition of the [...]

Data are everywhere. Many disciplines are addressing the issues of giving access and making sense to all these data. What can and should (visual) design do? “VisualEyes / The Role of Design in Data, Information and Knowledge Visualization” Open Seminar Thursday 20 May 2010 | 10.00 – 13.30 Politecnico di Milano | Campus Bovisa | [...]

Here‘s an interesting article about a new way to map and re-discovery the ancient world through the technologies. For a quarter of a century, two archaeologists and their team slogged through wild tropical vegetation to investigate and map the remains of one of the largest Maya cities, in Central America. Slow, sweaty hacking with machetes [...]

Last November Density Design has been invited by the School of Art and Architecture of Stockholm to organize a workshop of data visualization with the student of a master. They were working on the same topic, the city of Pune in India, trying to understand how to visualize some data about the city. Students had different background [...]

We are proud to present our research in the visualization of complex systems at the Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks — a Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci 2010 taking place at BarabásiLab — Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University in Boston, MA, on Monday, May 10, 2010.

This is a map of Europe as you’ve never seen it. It shows how people in the 27 EU states perceive the impact of the internet and mobile phones on their lives – and then contrasts this with their actual penetration in each country. We wanted to explore new ways to visualize such complex data. [...]

October 9th 2009 10.00-13.00 International week of Design PAN – Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli “L’utente fantasma” “Ghost user” Next month i’ll take part to a conference in Naples, during the International Week of Design organized by AIAP, about the “Ghost user”, concerning the forgotten role of the final user of any design project and [...]

We have been officially invited to present the CityMurmur project at the Emerging Technologies conference at SIGGRAPH09. Citymumur NewOrleans will be launch on the 3rd of August on the occasion of the first day of the conference. For those who have never heard anything about the SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and [...]

Last Monday the Fifth Edition of Frontiers of Interaction took place in Rome, confirming itself as one of the most interesting event in the panorama of interaction design. A rich schedule -full of people and thoughts to share- and a wonderful location -the Aquario Romano- to talk about how technologies are changing our life. The [...]

A very interesting set of conferences (about to end but we’re still in time) about cartography. The occasion is the next issue of the Atlas of Le Monde Diplomatique. http://www.cartografareilpresente.org http://www.cartografareilpresente.org/spip.php?page=cartes&lang=it http://www.france-bologna.it http://www.dds.unibo.it SIMPOSIO “GEOPOLITICA E MIGRAZIONI” Complesso di San Giovanni in Monte, Aula Prodi, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2, Bologna. Sabato 30 maggio, [...]