By SANDRA RENDGEN In the world of data visualisation there are only few works which…
Data Trails
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 Earth’s history
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 world’s first organigram: saving lives with railroad reporting lines
By SANDRA RENDGEN The railroads of the mid 19th century ran two-way traffic on a…
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 –…