— a development environment for making digital art

Field is an open-source software project initiated by OpenEnded Group, for the creation of their digital artworks. It is an environment for writing code to rapidly and experimentally assemble and explore algorithmic systems. It is visual, it is hybrid, it is code-based. We think that it has something to offer a diverse range of programmers and artists.

Based on ideas started at the MIT Media Lab, Field was in development in-house for around 6 years. But for the last 16 months it has been quietly available online as an open source project. We are pleased to announce the initial "beta" binary open-source releases for Intel-based Macs OS X 10.5 or 10.6.

This library provides a Python Language API for visualization of air traffic situation.

make art est un festival international dédié au Logiciel Libre et Open Source (FLOSS*) et contenus ouverts dans les arts numériques. make art propose des performances, des présentations, des ateliers et une exposition, situés au croisement de l'art et de la programmation de logiciel. L'événement est dédié à tous les artistes programmeurs libres, open hardware hackers et autres fétichistes de la ligne de commande.

This series of abstract data visualisation represents the source code structure and work progress of a software collection. The intention was to represent the sheer volume of work put into open source software development and usually by a smal number of people.

Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types.

That makes this page rather large - on an ordinary 72 dpi monitor it's just over half a mile wide, making it possibly one of the largest pages on the web.

In this age of information overload, a new solution is emerging that could help us cope with the oceans of data surrounding and swamping us. It's called information visualisation.

This site lets you explore traffic patterns of MBTA commuters across the various lines and stations over a single day. The data for this visualization was released as part of the Visualization Challenge by the Executive Office of Transportation.

make a choropleth map. You know, the maps that color regions by some metric. … In this post, I'll show you how to make a county-specific choropleth map using only free tools.

MapBox is a suite of open source tools to create beautiful custom maps in Amazon's cloud.

The italian magazine WIRED asked us to draw a map based on the scenarios developed by the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto to help the reader in the net of ideas and hypothesis built by 7000 influencers from all over the world.

This Timeline of 20th c. Art and New Media was created to include relationships between art, new media art, science, technology, war and media theory.

AKS KEN is basically a textual search engine and the matching entires from Freebase are visualized as a ring chart. The user can then drill down the wedges and unveil related ring charts. Images and a textual description to each topic are shown in a separate drawer on the right hand side.

Each line gets highlighted based on the complexity of the function: green for low, yellow for medium, red for high.

This is an overview of the visualization and interaction experiments I produced for my Masters Thesis “Visual tools for the socio–semantic web” (.pdf, 12MB).

This poster (800×1000mm) was designed to summarize and explain the summer holiday of 2009: a roadtrip/ moving house expedition undertaken by my partner Marthe and I, from Norway to England and back.

Project: smart.rockets

Date: Summer, 2006

Language: ActionScript 2

Key Concepts: Evolutionary computing, genetic algorithms, rocket science

Project: BC Budget Visualization Tool

Date: September, 2009

Language: Processing

Key Concepts: Data visualization, data organization, sticking it to the man

Project: tree.growth

Date: September, 2006

Language: Processing

Key Concepts: Lindenmayer Systems, recursion, biomimicry

Project: NYTimes 365/360

Date: February, 2009

Language: Processing

Key Concepts: Data Visualization, NYTimes Article Search API, HashMaps & ArrayLists

Project: GoodMorning!

Date: August, 2009

Language: Processing

Key Concepts: Spherical coordinates, latitude & longitude conversion, Twitter API, MetaCarta API

Good Data Viz can illuminate and educate, inspire and entertain. I also understand that this is an area when I am a student and am happy to turn it over to the pros. So, with this post I want to share some of the smartest stuff I’ve seen, as well as provide you with some original commentary from Patricia McDonald, Planning Director at BBH Labs.