A pilot program at the Interaction Design Pilot Year in Copenhagen in data visualization is currently underway.  As a collaboration between the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) and The Danish Design School (DKDS), they are focusing on programming, electronics, and user-centered design to solve problems in physical interfaces and new services.

Under supervision of Shawn Allen from Stamen Design, the students were given a two week long class in data visualisation. Many students had no previous experience in programming or data visualization but managed to create a wide range of applications that used different approaches to deal with large amount of information. They got a crash course in Actionscript 3, lectures in how to approach Data Visualization as a discipline and details on how to connect and parse information from the UN Data site.

InformationAesthetics has the complete list of projects with screenshots.

via Data Visualization Education at The Interaction Design Pilot Year (Norway) – information aesthetics.