We collected, analyzed and visualized more than 1M tweets on all of the biggies for the Oscars, like Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and here’s what we found…
2012: The Year of the Live-Data Infographic – The Revolution Will Be Visualized (In Real-Time)
In 2011, the “infographic” went mainstream. Big time. Take a hot topic, insert data,visualize in graphic form to explain aforementioned topic and, voila, infographic. Infographics have varied widely in terms of topic, tone and, unfortunately, quality. They’ve ranged from the mundane (Fashion Week Payscales) to the sublime (McCandless’s Billion Dollar Gram). David McCandless, Nick Felton, and sites
Data Makes Everything Better
It really does. Of course, as a User Experience Designer for a company called Webtrends I’m a little biased. If I didn’t feel this way my boss would be worried. But lately, geeking out over data has become more mainstream. From the New York Times’ amazing data visualization lab to Feltron’s Annual Reports, data has
Analytics 10 Part 2: The Design Process
This post is part of a series covering the launch of Analytics 10. You can see the entire series here. Analytics 10 has a lot of amazing features, but the one that has probably attracted the most attention is the visual design. While the design is a huge leap forward from the products that Analytics
There is No Spoon
Sometimes the key to great design is not designing them. When creating the new user experience for Insight the UX team deliberately left major design elements out in order to focus on the powerful data.
Running with Data: How Data Can Motivate
The sun is out, a few clouds dot the sky, and crisp fall air fills my lungs as I loop Portland’s Willamette river between the Hawthorne and Steel bridges. Lactic acid nips at my quads and my calves threaten to revolt with strain, but there are lots of things to distract me from any weak