Establishing understandable patterns and connections within complex information networks has become one of the big challenges of this new century: our capacity to generate data seems to have well surpassed our ability to grasp data. Aware of this, Manuel Lima (Açores, 1978) launched the project Visual Complexity in 2005: a platform that currently gathers 900 interfaces of authors dealing with a wide range of issues across disciplines such as art, biology or politics. Considered to be one of the ambassadors par excellence of the ‘datification’ phenomenon, the Portuguese has given lectures around the world on information visualization...[+]