April 2011

LIVE Singapore! visualisations reveal the city’s dynamics

LIVE Singapore! is a really exciting project from the SENSEable City Lab and part of the Future Urban Mobility research initiative at the Singapore and MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. Researchers have collaborated on the development of an open platform for collating and publishing a range of innovative, real-time data visualisations about the city.

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Google’s ‘Visualize Your Taxes’ contest winner announced

Google have announced the winners, runners-up and notable mentions for their recent ‘Visualize Your Taxes‘ challenge which invited designers to create data visualisations that would make it easier for US citizens to understand how the government spends their tax money. The winner is a project titled ‘Where did my tax dollars go?‘ by developer Anil Kandangath.

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Should HTML5 be considered a ‘Visualisation Resource’?

In my recently published Part 2 of the essential collection of visualisation resources I included HTML5 as a potential important language for creating visualisations. Having received some constructive comments and feedback from valued readers, I have decided to open up a discussion about whether to maintain HTML5 in this essential list, refine its description or

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