David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization. Free Data Visualization Software. Index. BBC News visualisation tool revealed | Media. Developer Andy Lintner's visualisation of the scale of the Deepwater Horizon disaster was a powerful and engaging way to explain the impact of the disaster, transposing the size of the slick to anywhere you chose. Interactive visualisations have huge potential for online storytelling but are a challenge to create under the time pressure of the newsroom. Which is why a new trial project for the BBC is exploring a tool to help illustrate its news and history pages.
Design agency Berg today revealed Dimensions at howbigreally.com which uses the same principle as Lintner's ifitwasmyhome to explain and relate the scale of events with our own location. Chose a 'dimension' - space, depths, ancient worlds, the industrial age, environmental disasters, the Battle of Britain, festivals, cities in history or the war on terror - and it will overlay representations on your postcode in a Google Map. Berg says the trial will be live for the next few months. Information aesthetics - Information Visualization & Visual Comm. Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visu. Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen | Video on TE.