The geonames.org geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license.

The Thinking for a Living series is an ever-growing platform dedicated to the concept of open source design education.

This article describes techniques you can use to create new levels of usefulness in your dynamically generated charts. Cook up some automatically generated graphs for your organizational meetings or live enterprise directory data.

Chris Coyne created a small language for design grammars. These grammars are sets of non-deterministic rules to produce images. The images are surprisingly beautiful, often from very simple grammars.

The ubiquity of frustrating, unhelpful software interfaces has motivated decades of research into “Human-Computer Interaction.” In this paper, I suggest that the long-standing focus on “interaction” may be misguided.

language + infographic analysis on the Billboard #1 single's lyrics

All kinds of insight about pie menus

Nowhere is the process of design communication more critical than in teaching beginning designers, since the effectiveness of the communication is crucial to the success of the student.

NetLogo is a programmable modeling environment for simulating natural and social phenomena. Modelers can give instructions to hundreds or thousands of independent "agents" all operating concurrently.

This dataset contains data from about 150 users, mostly senior management of Enron, organized into folders. The corpus contains a total of about 0.5M messages. This data was originally made public, and posted to the web, by the FERC.