data in sight – making the transparent visual.

Ever wondered what would happen if we put amazing designers and phenomenal programmers together for a weekend to work on the best data APIs?  That’s right. Incredible interactive visualizations!

Welcome to data in sight: making the transparent visual, a hands-on data visualization competition held June 24th through 26th, 2011, at the Adobe Systems, Inc. offices in San Francisco’s SoMa District.

To inspire you, we’re flying in some of the best interaction designers in the world to speak.  Check their portfolios:

  • Benjamin Wiederkehr, Director of Interactive Things, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Thomas Castro, LUST, The Hague, The Netherlands
  • Joris Maltha, Catalogtree, Arnheim, The Netherlands

You can also play with kick ass libraries and tools like:

We’re excited to see what you create.  Please blow our minds.

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Who should come? Open to coders, programmers, developers, designers, scientists, members of the media—anyone who believes that data is divine and has ideas for bringing it to life.

Competition details: The competition will be using open data. Data sets will be provided. Do you have an interesting data set of your own you’d like to contribute? As long as it is open, you can add it to the mix! For more details see the data page. Code produced during the competition will be open source.

 

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