12 Sep 2014:
The NoiseTube app uses the GPS and microphone in your smartphone to gather data and create collaborative noise maps which can be far more detailed than official versions
10 Sep 2014:
From the ultra simple to the dazzlingly complex, a panel of leading designers and data visualisation experts have nominated their favourite infographics
Guardian Professional,28 Aug 2014:
More NGOs are using maps and charts for campaigning. Rachel Banning-Lover explains how to visualise development data
4 Aug 2014:
Google have got it right with their new doodle venerating the 180th birthday of John Venn. Here are a few examples to show you how you can get it right
4 Jul 2014:
IBM's near real-time Wimbledon data is powered by county tennis players from across the UK, patiently recording the dynamics of every serve, slice and volley. By Ami Sedghi
13 Jun 2014:
Artists and technologists are collaborating in a 24-hour hack the Tate Modern this weekend, celebrating the launch of digital art platform The Space. By Alex Hern
16 Apr 2014:
These high-quality images may look like photographs of world cities at night taken by astronauts from the International Space Station – but they are painstakingly constructed from public map data and finessed by artist Marc Khachfe
7 Mar 2014:
Information graphics and visualisations give us a method to use images to describe a story in a way that we can understand.
If children want to comprehend the world around them, infographics can
do that, writes Simon Rogers
20 Feb 2014: Rebekah Higgitt: Opening tomorrow, the British Library’s Beautiful Science
exhibition raises fascinating questions about the power
of visualisations and how we might tell their history
From John Graunt's 'bills of mortality' to Florence Nightingale's 'rose charts', the distillation of information into graphics has been a vital tool for scientists, writes Nicola Davis