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.
Rule, data, data rule the waves…
François-Xavier Fringant, le 14 avril 2010 à 17:29A short introduction by Tim Berners Lee
François-Xavier Fringant, le 14 avril 2010 à 16:48In 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.
A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is a good start, too.
François-Xavier Fringant, le 14 avril 2010 à 16:35For 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



