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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…

March 1, 2018
idalab 2018-03-01T16:11:33+01:00
The Culture Section

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,…

January 25, 2018
idalab 2018-01-25T16:00:04+01:00
The Culture Section

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…

December 8, 2017
idalab 2017-12-08T15:51:03+01:00
The Culture Section

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…

November 24, 2017
idalab 2017-11-24T15:45:54+01:00
The Culture Section

Religious strategies: How to make complexity accessible in a diagram

By SANDRA RENDGEN Do you know that thing when you draft a project and anticipate…

October 25, 2017
idalab 2017-10-25T15:28:18+02:00
The Culture Section

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. During…

September 26, 2017
idalab 2017-09-26T15:02:32+02:00
The Culture Section

The map that creates a new world order

By SANDRA RENDGEN There is a very basic joy in roaming through atlases and in…

August 30, 2017
idalab 2017-08-30T14:53:58+02:00
The Culture Section

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…

August 2, 2017
idalab 2017-08-02T14:16:00+02:00
The Culture Section

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…

June 27, 2017
idalab 2017-06-27T12:09:47+02:00
The Culture Section

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 –…

May 29, 2017
idalab 2017-05-29T12:00:17+02:00

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