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Some people call it info porn,” says Manuel Lima, the designer who created Visual Complexity, an online repository for these kinds of projects. “It’s a fascination with the simple fact of visualization.” In the decade since Edward Tufte released a trifecta of books on good information graphics in the 1990s, the discipline has morphed from the purview of cartographers and computer scientists into an aspirational field for young designers and honey for fickle consumers.

✖ Via Print Mag: “The Irresistible Appeal of Info Porn” by Cliff Kuang

“Cliff Kuang is a regular contributor to Print. He is a former editor at Harper’s, The Economist, and I.D., and writes regularly for Popular Science, Wired, and Fast Company.”

• Jun 26, 2010 link notes tagged: art communication information data visualization info porn graphic design

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✖ Via Mark Goetz: “Every time you make a PowerPoint, Edward Tufte kills a kitten”, Nov. 17th, 2009

“Here’s my new wallpaper at work – something I’ve been working on in OmniGraffle.”

“My name is Mark Goetz, and I am currently a second-year Master student at the University of Michigan’s School of Information. I’m specializing in Human-Computer Interaction, and hope to begin a career in user research and interaction design after I’ve finished.” (more)

Visit his portofolio over at http://markandrewgoetz.com

Previously on Skandalon: PowerPoint, Edward Tufte.

• Mar 18, 2010 link notes reblogged from fuckyeahinfo [via] tagged: art technology communication PowerPoint design humor critic interaction human computer

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✖ Via Joe Kral photostream on Flickr: “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”

“The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the high-resolution displays, small multiples. Editing and improving graphics. The data-ink ratio. Time-series, relational graphics, data maps, multivariate designs. Detection of graphical deception: design variation vs. data variation. Sources of deception. Aesthetics and data graphical displays.” Learn more about this book on Edward R. Tufte’s website.

“Edward Rolf Tufte (born 1942) is an American statistician and Professor Emeritus of statistics, information design, interface design and political economy at Yale University. He has been described by The New York Times as “the da Vinci of Data”. He is an expert in the presentation of informational graphics such as charts and diagrams, and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. Tufte has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences. (Wikipedia).

• Jul 18, 2009 link notes [via] tagged: book cover author data visualization design

PowerPoint’s convenience for some presenters is costly to the content and the audience. These costs arise from the cognitive style characteristic of the standard default PP presentation: foreshortening of evidence and thought, low spatial resolution, an intensely hierarchical single-path structures as the model for organizing every type of content, breaking up narratives and data into slides and minimal fragments, rapid temporal sequencing of thin information rather than focused spatial analysis, conspicuous chartjunk and PP Phluff, branding of slides with logotypes, a preoccupation with format not content, incompetent design for data graphics and tables, and a smirky commercialism that turns information into sales pitch and presenters into marketeers.

✖ Via Edward R. Tufte, The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within, Cheshire: Graphics Press LLC, 2006, p. 4

About Edward Tufte:

“Edward Rolf Tufte (born 1942) is an American statistician and Professor Emeritus of statistics, information design, interface design and political economy at Yale University. He has been described by The New York Times as “the da Vinci of Data”. He is an expert in the presentation of informational graphics such as charts and diagrams, and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. Tufte has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences. Tufte lives in Cheshire, Connecticut. He periodically travels around the United States to offer one-day workshops on data presentation and information graphics.” (wikipedia)

Previously on Skandalon : Power Point.

• Jul 14, 2009 link notes tagged: art author book communication data design fragment information technology visualization powerpoint