(Open) Data APIs are becoming more and more available, and I explain in this O'Reilly Radar article how they enable us to focus on visual storytelling, instead of spending most of our time setting up the data pipieline.
Data is taking an increasingly important place in our society, and in the ways we communicate professionally and personally. From corporations to governments & non-profits, we're seeing data used in increasingly clever ways to explain complex phenomenon or trends, raise awareness of a variety of issues, and strengthen transparency and credibility…
There's a wealth of data readily available, but few people know what to do with it. Based on my 6 years of practical experience running the leading Canadian data-visualization studio and working with high-profile clients, I will share practical ways to use data in design & communications, while giving an overview of the challenges & opportunities ahead…
As a follow-up to the Expense Visualizer project we took the opportunity offered by the Google Dataviz Challenge in 2011 and created an interactive tool to explore the recently published US Federal budget.
The Invisible Islands project is part of the Media Architecture Biennale 2014 in Aarhus, Denmark. It's not always easy to grasp what media architecture is about, but in this short article I present my perspective on media architecture using the Islands project as a prism to explore some of its facets.
Visualizing graphs is a tricky topic. I recently animated a workshop on concept map, which gave me the opportunity to experiment with a few tools & algorithms for graph visualization. This presentation collects my thoughts into something that will hopefully be useful to both beginners & experts.
In 2009, the government of Canada put in place a Proactive Disclosure system where federal departments had to proactively publish travel & hospitality expenses as well as contracts over 10,000$. The Expense Visualizer is an attempt at making sense of this dataset and provinding a tool for citizens & journalists to share and discuss findings in the data.
I started working on the Invisible Islands project early August 2014. This is the first public presentation of the project, while also being my first presentation as an artist!
I discovered data visualization alsmot by accident when I went back to university to study design, and this project was part of my final exam. It got featured in Manuel Lima's Visual Complexity collection and was later mntioned in his book “Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information”.
A short introduction to data visualization followed by a few points on how to apply it in a public administration context.