What we were up to at Flink Labs in the last week or so.

• Finishing up some long planned transport visualisations
• Working with native OpenGL in processing
• Watching Timo’s presentation at Lift
• Listening to Bruce Sterling at Reboot
• Amazed at Tom Coates’ and Matt Jones’ fantastic WebStock presentations
• Running around Melbourne

What we were up to at Flink Labs last week.

• Reading interview with Stamen’s Tom Carden
• Watching very professional video with Manuel Lima
• Playing Crazy Bones with the kids
• Scraping state government agency HTML and parsing XML from global governmental organisations
• Shopping at the Melbourne Design Market

A very solid week just gone at Flink Labs with lots of tweaks and finishing touches put on our most recent project.

Keeping us ticking along was

• Our new Flip UltraHD camera…fantastic!!
• Watching the effort put into their dishes by the Masterchef contestants
• Reading the just arrived edition of Monocle
• Listening to the Brand new Heavies album Get Used to It
• Dancing to Staying Alive
• Enjoying a celebratory glass of Croser to kick off the long weekend

As our contribution to World Environment Day, Flink Labs is pleased to launch the Significant Trees project. As an interactive website, the Significant Trees project maps the significant trees in the City of Boroondara and allows residents and visitors to contribute photos, comments and stories about the individual trees.

Flink Labs firmly believes that data visualisation is a powerful mechanism for raising awareness of environmental issues, improving accessibility of government data, and increasing engagement with the general population.

By visualising the set of trees in the council’s Significant Tree list, we hope to raise awareness of these beautiful trees, and engage the community through stories and photos of their local environment.

The Flink Labs Significant Tree project can be found online at http://www.flinklabs.com/projects/trees/

Flink Labs is a Data Visualisation studio based in Melbourne, Australia. We work with our clients to create engaging, meaningful data visualisations that help them discover previously hidden insights and better communicate with their customers.

For more information about the Significant Trees project or data visualisation please contact us on 03 9018 5017, via email hello@flinklabs.com, visit us online at www.flinklabs.com or follow us on twitter @flinklabs.

More information about World Environment Day can be found at http://www.unep.org/wed/2009/english/