Archive for August, 2009

Heads down

Monday, August 24th, 2009

We’ve been quite busy in the studio over the last few weeks. We’ve got some deadlines coming up in October and need ti stay focused to ensure we meet them.

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

  • Building initial versions of our Twitter/Flickr visualisation
  • Finishing our government 2.0 submission…more on this soon
  • Chilling out to Morcheeba
  • More astronomy at the Sydney observatory
  • Ordering some fun publicity stuff for new projects

Data Visualisation in Business Week

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Business Week magazine features an article by Maria Popova giving a brief overview and examples of some recent data visualisations.

The article tends to focus on the more aesthetically oriented pieces but is a good overview of attractive looking pieces and smaller set of useful visualisations such as crime spotting.

She ends the article with some brush stroke examples of where data visualisations could be used for within a business context. While by no means a full coverage it does spark some potential opportunities, especially taking large sets of data that are shown to consumers as tables and using a visual representation to improve that communication be it energy, telecom or banking.

At Flink Labs we're very bullish on using data visualisation to engage with and communicate with your customers and stakeholders. Aesthetically attractive pieces such as Melbourne Trains expose a complexity hidden from the average commuter while the H1N1 visualisation engages with the population to, hopefully, put the number of deaths from swine flu in context.

Surrealism

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

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

  • Dreaming about astrobots after listening to Fiona Romeo’s talk from Webstock
  • Attending the NGV Dali exhibition and party
  • Studying basic (school level) astronomy concepts for visualisation metaphors
  • Sketching out twitter/flickr visualisation concepts
  • Preparing a submission to the Gov2.0 taskforce here in Australia. Great fit with Visualizar’09 workshop concepts.
  • Working with key clients on user engagement strategies and real time transport visualisations.