Visualizing complex data requires knowledge, skills and experience. Since we possess sophisticated tools to help explain our ideas, we have great responsibility as well.

There are several ways to make clear what’s important, one of them being the use of color. With it, we can build (visually appealing) contrasts, which are often needed to illustrate our point. But there are so many of them, so we should be careful when adding some of them into our works. In fact, reducing the amount of color often makes understanding the substance easier.

This website shows and discusses information graphics found in visual media, particularly the internet. Aspects like animation and interactivity are the challenges I want to write about, preferably in a dialogue with the readers. So, if you see something you like or don’t, let me know why!

Benjamin Wiederkehr of datavisualization.ch happens to recommend some reading about this topic.