Everywhere I’ve Been: Mapping 3 Years Worth of Location Tracking

March 13, 2012 – 10:09 am

Co-founder of Geoloqi Aaron Parecki is showing of the core services of this mobile platform for tracking and sharing location data, in the blog post - more -

Monitoring the Delays of Trains in Real-Time in Germany

March 12, 2012 – 11:16 am

The people behind OpenDataCity [opendatacity.de] released a real-time map of delayed long-distance trains [sueddeutsche.de] of the Deutsche Bahn, as they happen to drive around - more -

How Stephen Wolfram Spent the Last 22 Years (behind the Computer)

March 12, 2012 – 10:59 am

Stephen Wolfram, the chief designer of Mathematica and the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine, has been setting a new norm in the fields of lifelogging, the - more -

Biologic: Your Social Network Represented as Biological Cells

March 8, 2012 – 1:30 pm

Bloom Studio, which includes people like Ben Cerveny and Tom Carden, has just released its latest pop-cultural data expression. Biologic [bloom.io] is a (free!) - more -

Jer Thorp TEDx Talk on the Weight of Data

March 6, 2012 – 12:37 pm

At TEDxVancouver in November of last year, data artist and NYTLabs artist in residence Jer Thorpe talked about all matters relating to "data" and - more -

Pulse: Tracking Electricity Usage of Office Buildings

March 5, 2012 – 7:55 pm

Pulse [greenbuildingsalive.com], beautifully designed by Andrea Lau's venture Small Multiples, tracks and visualizes the patterns of electricity use in about 50 office buildings located - more -

Ville Vivante: Tracing the Liveliness of Mobile Phone Usage in Geneva

February 29, 2012 – 5:12 pm

Ville Vivante [villevivante.ch] represents the digital traces created by the constant movement of mobile phones in the city of Geneva, Switzerland. A particle flow-field inspired - more -

The Feltron Biennial Report of 2010 and 2011

February 29, 2012 – 4:11 pm

It is that happy time of year again: information designer Nicholas Felton has released his latest year report, this time covering a two-year period. As - more -

Ranking the Autonomy of Universities in Europe

February 27, 2012 – 7:55 pm

The European University Association (EUA), a representative organisation of universities from about 47 European countries, just released a University Autonomy Tool [university-autonomy.eu]. Developed by - more -

Infographically Enhanced Observation Deck at Zurich Airport

February 15, 2012 – 7:33 pm

The physical environment around the new 250-meter-long "Observation Deck B" [artcom.de] at Zurich Airport has been infographically enhanced by German interaction design studio ART+COM. Several - more -