By PAUL VON BÜNAU The concept of Artificial Intelligence had a massive impact over the past…
It is a question of when, not if, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives. We don’t know what the future will look like. So here we try to sense the shape of things to come.
Die Sehnsucht nach Transparenz ist eine Sehnsucht nach Begründung. Warum Algorithmen lernen sollten, eine Geschichte zu erzählen.
By PAUL VON BÜNAU Basis aller heutigen Künstlichen Intelligenz sind bekanntlich Algorithmen. Diese sind in…
What do we mean by “data”?
By SANDRA RENDGEN Some technical terms are so ubiquitous and (apparently) unambigious, that they almost…
Data journalism for the people
By SANDRA RENDGEN Oh boy, we live in exciting times. Not many generations in history…
The defeat: In one of the best data maps ever, an entire army is wiped out
By SANDRA RENDGEN In the world of data visualisation there are only few works which…
Mapping time: 1,700 years of England and France on a single page
By SANDRA RENDGEN Picture this: you want to plot data describing two large geographic entities,…
Curves and loops: These river maps integrate geological data from several millennia
By SANDRA RENDGEN Oh, the Mississippi. The „Father of Waters“ is a heroic beauty with…
Professors invented the timeline to help students deal with complexity
By SANDRA RENDGEN Timelines seem like such a „natural idea“ these days that we don’t…
Religious strategies: how to make complexity accessible to the masses
By SANDRA RENDGEN I stumbled upon this severe beauty of a tree diagram from 1608…
A problem of scale: how to wrap up the history of Earth
By SANDRA RENDGEN The Earth is roughly four and a half billion years old. For…
The map that creates a new world order
By SANDRA RENDGEN In these days of restricted travel, maps bring us some comfort –…
Infectious diseases: The persuasive power of data in public health
By SANDRA RENDGEN Visualising data on health and mortality has a most up-to-date ring to…
The team: In this first organisational chart, reporting lines save human lives
By SANDRA RENDGEN Once we have grown used to a new technology, it is hard…
The budget: In this data visualisation, a civil war disrupts the national economy
By SANDRA RENDGEN 81 years of budget data and various categories in three diagrams –…
“Alternative für Deutschland” – a “new” political party for Germany?
By PAUL VON BÜNAU The astonishing rise of the “Alternative für Deutschland” (AfD, translated: alternative…
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