There was a lot of brainwork this week in Rennes France bringing together web developpers, web designers, graphic designers, telecom engineers, political sciences students, etc to work on developping infoviz based on public opendata: extracting data, processing, enhancing and visualising. …

A comprehensive video report on data visualization as a storytelling medium. Created by Geoff McGhee, an online journalist specializing in multimedia and information graphics, as part of a 2009-2010 Knight Journalism Fellowship.

Wait, HOW much do we owe?

TED.com posted a new video in the past couple of days featuring Gary Flake, a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and the founder/director of Live Labs. Gary was demoing Pivot, a new tool from Microsoft’s Live Labs that was designed with …

Came across a great Ignite video through the Information Aesthetics blog today entitled “Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization”. Presented at Ignite DC by Alex Lundry,VP and Director of Research at TargetPoint. It’s an entertaining presentation that looks …

While there are amazing things happening throughout the visual thinking community, some of the most interesting are happening at our sponsors, not the least of which is happening at Tableau. Late last week, we sat down with their Director of …