François-Xavier Fringant, le 24 février 2011 à 23:51
Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the clouds
Those who are familiar with Saint Pancras station only know it too well: London is changing rapidly. From the Conservatives regaining power in 2008 to the upcoming Olympics, the city’s buildings are undergoing some kind of overpriced, permanent makeover.
Perhaps in a more ear-friendly fashion, its digital landscape seems to evolve even more dramatically. Over the last four months, I have been able to witness this on-going, silent revolution, through a series of insightful talks and conferences. Amid the growing data fever, London seemed like the perfect place to check the temperature.
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Tags : assange, britain, datajournalism, greyworld, london, mccandless, opendata, pollock, shoben, stephens, tullo
François-Xavier Fringant, le 5 novembre 2010 à 00:35
Behold! The four founders of this blog are proud and delighted to announce the launch of Dataveyes. Thrilled by the success of our student joint actuvisu.fr, we decided to take the experience one step further, by creating our start-up company, which (not-so-surprisingly) designs interactive data visualizations.
Why embarking on this new adventure, one may wonder. As a matter of fact, we think that our passion for data visualization is best fulfilled by making technology available to B2B and media purposes.
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Tags : Dataveyes
François-Xavier Fringant, le 10 juin 2010 à 20:27
Part one : Meet the players
Unless you have been living in a cave for the last six months, you probably already know all about the main event. Not the much expected electoral reforms or the finals of Britain’s Got Talent, that is. Much more seriously, the 19th FIFA World Cup is upon us. Since its first edition held in 1930, the sports event has always captured the vivid attention of people the world over. All racial, national or religious consideration aside, the ruthless football fever seems to spare no one. During four weeks, 32 teams will compete fiercely to snatch the much desired 18 carat golden trophy.
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Tags : data, datavisualization.ch, england, estadao, football, marca, oberhauser, rooney, visualization, world cup
François-Xavier Fringant, le 12 mai 2010 à 20:05
The General Election finally delivered its much expected verdict. As feared or hoped by many, we ended up with a
hung Parliament, with no political party enjoying the required majority of seats at the House of Commons. The lockout of the early days ended when the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats reached a
full five year coalition deal. Amongst other agreements, LibDem leader Nick Clegg is to become the country’s ninth deputy PM. Forced to thorough negotiations to secure a stable majority, the Tories granted the Yellows with five ministerial departments.
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Tags : AV, coalition, FPTP, Politics, proportional, STV, voting system
François-Xavier Fringant, le 10 mai 2010 à 18:12
London – 5.09 GMT
Mr Brown says he has « no desire to stay in my position longer than is needed to ensure that the path to economic growth is secured » and the route is paved for political reform. He says he will ask his party to launch a leadership contest and will play no part in it – expecting a new leader to be in place around the time of the Labour conference in September.
More at BBC live coverage
Tags : élections, Gordon Brown, resign
François-Xavier Fringant, le 3 mai 2010 à 22:46
The news that has dominated the headlines was that The Sun withdrew its 12 year long support for Labour, and now cheers for the Tories. In the midst of a very hard-fought election, the turnaround of Britain’s best selling daily newspaper could only spark speculations..
Versatile support... The Sun
François-Xavier Fringant, le 2 mai 2010 à 21:11
Tower of Power : A Mock Up of the Projection
‘The results of the general election are to be projected on to St Stephen’s Tower, which houses Big Ben, for the first time, by the BBC. The number of seats won by the three largest Westminster parties will be updated over the course of the night. The images, illustrating the state of the parties, will be beamed from the moment the first result is declared until about 0530 BST the next morning. The BBC said it was « delighted » with the initiative.‘
The Parliament has joined the BBC in this endeavour to project the election results onto the most famous tower of the House. This is the first time such projection is organized in Britain.
A small step for data…
François-Xavier Fringant, le 22 avril 2010 à 17:43
I do hope that most of you have paid attention to the first
British election debate held last week on national television. The leaders of the three main parties were invited to discuss questions asked by a sample of British citizens and selected beforehand by broadcasters.
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Tags : brown, cameron, clegg, Conservatives, data, data protection, database, general election, Labour, libdem, manifesto, public expenditure, 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.
To contact us : hello@actuvisu.fr or find us on Facebook
Actuvisu : Database journalism in the making
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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Tags : 19-20-21, geography, globalization, population, Richard Saul Wurman, storytelling, TED, vizualisation
