International Institute for Information Design
Information+ has been postponed for one year, until fall 2021.
Hopefully, in the fall of 2021, a new version of the conference at Georgia Tech will be carried out with as many of the existing components as possible.
There is one positive update: the special issue of the Information Design Journal with contributions by presenters of Information+ 2018 is now finally online under an open access license: https://benjamins.com/catalog/idj.25.1
Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures. Under the given circumstances we have made some changes and adaptations.
Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures. Under the given circumstances we have made some changes and adaptations.
The jury meeting is postponed to May 15/16, will be held face-2-face or online, depending on current developments.
Let us show the world the impact of excellent information design. If you have any further suggestions, ideas, please contact us.
The more, the better: our ambition is to have as many cases as possible giving evidence of the importance and relevance of information design.
So please submit two entries and get two more for free.
Promotion ends on Wed. -15th of April.
For details and submissions, please visit the IIIDaward website.
Although we are constantly updating and expanding our visualizations around the developments of the spread of the Corona virus, we are painfully aware of the underlying limitations and the risks of statistical communication.
Although we are constantly updating and expanding our visualizations around the developments of the spread of the Corona virus, we are painfully aware of the underlying limitations and the risks of statistical communication. Numbers, exuding a certain authority, may draw attention in ways that are not appropriate to the issues they claim to represent.
While it is extremely important to put quantitative information in context, we lack the detail to do so in a meaningful way: the number of tests performed, population, demographic profiles and many others.
We have added a new view, charts, which should help to better understand the dynamics of development at each location. These diagrams are scaled to facilitate comparative reading – they do not allow quantitative comparisons in any way.
Data collected and managed by Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at John Hopkins University – Great Work! https://url.iidj.net/arcgis_75MX
Andreas Schneider
Institute of Information Design Japan iidj
2020-03-23.
Abstract submission deadline has been extended, we are currently working on a new timeline.
Information and mobility design for high-density multilingual environments
6-8 November 2020, Mumbai, India
Abstract submission deadline has been extended, we are currently working on a new timeline.
Our aim is to make sure that the event will take place, either in Mumbai or as a virtual conference.
X-Ray Visualization: A Fine Tradition of Visualizing Medical Data – Plus, introducing a new contest for healthcare visualizations.
X-Ray Visualization: A Fine Tradition of Visualizing Medical Data – Plus, introducing a new contest for healthcare visualizations.
By Will Stahl-Timmins, Data visualisation designer, British Medical Journal, and John Appleby, Director of Research and Chief Economist, The Nuffield Trust
There is a fine tradition of innovation in the visual presentation of health and care data. John Snow produced a map of Cholera cases during the 1854 outbreak in London, England. It clearly shows cases clustered around the Broad Street water pump — the source of infection. A list of addresses would be far harder to interpret than the map. Perhaps Snow realised that the human visual system’s capacity for pattern finding could be harnessed by using data maps such as these.
https://medium.com/nightingale/x-ray-visualization-a-fine-tradition-of-visualizing-medical-data-bd9cad58d884
Contribution from WRR, Will Stahl-Timmins
Visualising health inequalities—Announcing a new data visualisation competition in healthcare. Given the ubiquity of data in our lives it is perhaps unsurprising that methods to help us understand this rising tide of digits have become increasingly popular.
Visualising health inequalities—Announcing a new data visualisation competition in healthcare.
Given the ubiquity of data in our lives it is perhaps unsurprising that methods to help us understand this rising tide of digits have become increasingly popular.12 Techniques such as bar and line charts have helped us to see patterns in numerical data since at least the late 18th century.3 However, the digital revolution has boosted the possibilities for visualising data, and there is now a thriving field of practice and research in “data visualisation.”
https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l5976?
Contribution from WRR, Will Stahl-Timmins
Andreas Schneider from IIDj, Institute for Information Design Japan sent this article.
Following the development of presentations around the coronavirus evolution we feel obliged to raise our concerns:
We keep updating the live 3-D visualization of the virus’ geographic appearance within the limitations set by insufficient data, based on the LiveTracker of the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at John Hopkins University, USA.
https://api.iidj.net/cv/
https://api.iidj.net/cv/timeline
We hope that the respective authorities will make efforts to provide appropriate data in a consistent format. This is necessary for responsible decision-making at personal and political levels that can count on the understanding of all concerned.
Data collected and managed by Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at John Hopkins University. https://url.iidj.net/arcgis_75MX
Context, worldwide:
According to WHO, 15 deaths every minute = 8MIO per year through AIR POLLUTION https://url.iidj.net/who_ghZS
According to WHO, 15+ deaths every minute = 8MIO+ per year through TOBACCO USE https://url.iidj.net/who_7745
According to WHO, 3 deaths every minute = 1.6MIO per year directly caused by DIABETES (2016) https://url.iidj.net/who_HL21
September 30th – October 2nd 2020
The Watergate Hotel, Washington, USA
Clarity 2020 focuses on Access for All to include access for any person to justice systems, health-care choices, financial decisions, opportunities, technology, and much more.
This one-day conference VK20 questions how we can make democracy more visual, and thereby, enabling more people to be informed participants in democracy.
Interdisciplinary practices in information design & visualization
September 24th-27th, 2020 at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia (USA).
Submission of abstracts: 20 April 2020
15 categories, entries from around the world, an international jury, and a great track record for high quality competition. We don’t just give it away, folks!
Entry deadline: 18 March 2020
Be a winner
2019 Christian Lunger and Markus Scheiber started a series of (mainly German) conversations about orientation, spacial design, and information. Well worth listening to!
Make a note in your calendar: Vienna, 14 November 2020
For the third time FYI: will provide an exciting meeting place for information designers in Vienna.
It’s an intense and exciting introduction to the field, and attracts many people who are not from an information design background, but who have problems they think information design can solve.
We’ve had medical people, lawyers, technical writers and government administrators, for example.
The summer school is taking a break in 2020 but get in touch to find out about our future plans.
