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ActuVisu : ze French visualization

François-Xavier Fringant, le 20 avril 2010 à 00:29

Discover our latest student achievement. Named ActuVisu, a portmanteau word with Actualités (news) and Visualization, the website will thrive on data to provide powerful, eye-catchy and challenging analyses of the world. One of its kind in France, ActuVisu aims to make up for the lack of data gathering in the French media.

Our press release is available here.

Press release actuvisu launching

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To contact us : hello@actuvisu.fr or find us on Facebook

Actuvisu : Database journalism in the making

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Biggie biggie biggie, can't you see…

François-Xavier Fringant, le 16 avril 2010 à 16:04

Discover a very insightful data-based project led by Richard Saul Wurman, the TED conferences founder and chairman. A prominent graphic designer, Wurman dedicated most of his work to making information understandable for all. Lit up with a genuine passion for geography, the man with a plan wrote over 80 books, including 22 city guides and atlases.

Richard Saul Wurman

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Rule, data, data rule the waves…

François-Xavier Fringant, le 14 avril 2010 à 17:29

Having lived for some time in the United Kingdom, I am always paying extra attention when it comes to political events occurring in good ole Britannia. In the midst of this General Election year, there is plenty of information to gather here and there and we are certainly not running out of data to analyse voting trends.

On your mark, set... : PM candidates G. Brown, D. Cameron, N. Clegg

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A short introduction by Tim Berners Lee

François-Xavier Fringant, le 14 avril 2010 à 16:48

In this video, London-born Tim Berners Lee recalls in which conditions he pretty much invented the Internet, back in the 1990s. To make a not-so-long story shorter, he explains how he thrived on a very casual, daily frustration linked to the incompatibiliy of the documents that were available.

Tim Berners Lee

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A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is a good start, too.

François-Xavier Fringant, le 14 avril 2010 à 16:35

For starters, I think this video is a pretty good introduction to the different notions  of database journalism. Non-geeks can skip the scientific explanations, but all should be equally amazed by the visual quality of the displayed visualizations.

A breathtaking exploration on mapping opportunities provided by worldwide acknowledged Manuel Lima, editor of Visual Complexity. Lire la suite

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