My colleague Celine Latulipe has made a nice website about her Dance.Draw project. In what she calls Exquisite Interaction, three dancers wield inertial mice and thus control shapes on a projection behind them. The result is interesting and beautiful.

I am looking for a designer to help me work on the icon for a program I am developing. The program is written for the iPhone and will be announced here once the iPhone AppStore is up (presumably at the end of June). Without going into details, let me tell you that it will be visualization-related, and that it will tie in with this website. If you feel that you could help, please contact me by the end of the week the latest (there is a first deadline next Monday).

A paper on visualization criticism just appeared in the Visualization Viewpoints section of this month's Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A). Authors are yours truly, Fritz Drury, Lars Erik Holmquist, and David Laidlaw.

The City College of New York will be hosting a visualization day on April 30, with a very interesting line-up of speakers: Ben Shneiderman (who is also listed as a sponsor), Matthew Ericson (NY Times), Catherine Plaisant (University of Maryland), Martin Wattenberg (IBM/Many Eyes), and others.

On April 24 and 25, the Charlotte Visualization Center at UNC Charlotte will host its second symposium, titled Visualization in the World. We have an impressive line-up of speakers and are expecting fascinating discussions.

Data is being set free: the United Nations have started a new website called UN Data to share the data collected by a number of UN agencies. 55 million data records are waiting to be explored and visualized. The search interface is very nice and usable, but still lacks power.

I have moved the photos from Vis conferences etc. that I used to host here to a collection on Flickr. The intention is to make them easier to find, since I expect more people to look for pictures of events on Flickr than using Google. The collection of images and events covered has been expanded, and all the images have been "remastered", and are now larger and prettier. I will still announce new photos here when I post them on Flickr.