I wrote a #makingof of OECD's Going Digital Toolkit, how we created a scalable chart system with just the right amount of curation. Made at Interactive Things with Christoph Schmid Tomas Carnecky @herrstucki Flore de Crombrugghe Benjamin Wiederkehr Solange Vogt blog.interactivethings.com/how-we-visuali… #Datavisualization #chartsystem

How populist are you? Take the quiz from the The Guardian (buff.ly/2TtSBde). I feel quite at ease close to Macron. The summary of the reader's positions is interesting too. There is also a Swiss version from Interaktiv-Team buff.ly/2TJaR5o

Jonas Oesch (Jonas Oesch) of the IIT (Institute of Interactive Technologies FHNW) is giving a lecture on "What does usability bring" as a part of our computer science (CS) seminar series. Here he's deconstructing 'sitability' :)

«Type classifications are useful, but the common ones are not». I totally agree with Indra Kupferschmid 💙💛 and her proposal is a big step forward. Her proposed combinatorial categories like "linear geometric serif" lead you in a pretty specific territory already. buff.ly/2FqGZml

A wonderful (and old) example of integrating text and images to explain a complex subject. Here it's geometric relationships. buff.ly/2UQxOkE

Why simply color your barcharts when you can stick movie posters inside them? Thanks to Tiffany France for putting fun in a simple chart like this. buff.ly/2UMRhWp (sadly it only works in Chrome)

I especially like this flowmap from a National Geographic story on bird migration. It looks like these illustrations of the circulatory system from the 80s. Some inspiration for Ilya Boyandin 🇺🇦 maybe? The whole article is worth experiencing (that's the proper word, I guess). buff.ly/2FAfZ29

As fires rage in Siberia, Canada, Greenland and Alaska: we've published our 🔥wildfire explainer🔥 How do they start? How do we fight/prevent them? What's the deal in🇨🇭? ..And climate change? Insights and data in 🇩🇪: nzz.ch/wissenschaft/e… in 🇺🇸🇬🇧: medium.com/@wiederkehr.ac…

TabNine offers code autocompletion based on 2 million files from Github. It's simply text generation for source code. One of these: how could it have taken so long to get this idea moments. The deep learning version is almost frighteningly accurate. buff.ly/2JLENH9

Thougts about scientifc illustration by Jen Christiansen who is a long-time art director at the Scientific American. The article is worth the read for the examples alone. buff.ly/2qclbT6

The simple mechanics that lead to segregation… and the equally simple mechanics that counter it. Explained with polygons. And simulations that you can play around with. It's perfect. I don't know how this could have been done any better. buff.ly/2loLMKp

Wir freuen uns sehr, dass das Grafikteam von NZZ Visuals nun wieder komplett ist: Herzlich willkommen, Jonas Oesch! 👨‍💻💡📈📊🖌📲

My first visualiziation for the NZZ 🎉 Thanks Marie-José Kolly for the support and the great collaboration!

How did I not know this!? (You can let iOS fill passwords from Lastpass and now login forms on news sites I subscribe to are no longer too tedious to fill)

Vega 5.7.0 has been released! 📊 Includes support for more statistical routines, dot plot layout, chart subtitles, multi-line text, and more: github.com/vega/vega/rele…

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Last week a small revolution at NZZ happened, and hardly anyone noticed (which was exactly the point). These are some of the first graphics printed directly from our toolbox q.tools. This is what a true digital first approach looks like. 📊✨📰

Microsoft open sources SandDance, the beloved data visualization tool from Microsoft Research. Read here: msft.it/6019TRih9 #JavaScript #analytics

Who would like to be my new boss ;)

First visualization for online and print with Gian Andrea Marti and Eugen Fleckenstein about bird migration. I especially like the story of the "Pfeilstorch" (German has words for everything it seems). nzz.ch/panorama/vogel…