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Data visualization is a pretty literal term that means, quite simply, the visual representation of quantitative data. In this course we’ll learn common techniques for visualizing data, as well as some strategies for managing information digitally. But first, a brief history. |
✖ Via School of Visual Art / Interaction Design / Data Visualization: “Introduction to Data Visualization” by Shawn Allen, July 8th, 2010 This is part of a course belonging to an MFA program in Interaction Design offered by the School of Visual Art (New York). The course intend to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of data visualization, and provide a structured environment for experimentation with a variety of methods in both digital and physical media. (more) About Shawn Allen: Shawn is a partner and design director at Stamen, a San Francisco studio specializing in data visualization and mapping. (more) Check his official website. Previously on Skandalon: New York School of Visual Art |
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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.” |
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For the epistemologist, the notion of ‘application’ in an expression such as ‘applied psychoanalysis’ is simply flabby. It would seem to imply that a body of theory, more or less rigorously formulated, can be applied without modification to a set of data or to a field of study (in this case, works of art) different from that for which it was constructed (the set of psycho-neurotic symptoms and abnormal psychic phenomena). If this were so, the two domains would be indistinguishable; if they are not, then the attempt at application requires modifications that, however trivial, make that body of theory different from what it was in its first ‘state’. |
✖ Via “Beyond Representation” by Jean-François Lyotard, tr. by Jonathan Culler, reproduced in The Lyotard Reader, edited by Andrew E. Benjamin, Wiley-Blackwell, 1989, p. 155 About The Lyotard Reader: “Jean-Francois Lyotard was one of the founding members of the College Internationale de philosophie. Ha has taught at Vincennes, Saint Denis and is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine. Several of his books have appeared in English, notable The Postmodern Condition, Just Gaming and The Dirrerend.The Lyotard Reader is a collection of Jean-Francois Lyotard’s most important and significant papers to date. While they are all written from within philosophy, they seek to address subjects as wide-ranging as film, painting (Adami, Francken, Newman), psychoanalysis, Judaism and politics. The originality of Lyotard’s work means that it can not be readily situated within any one philosophical tradition. Instead he returns philosophy itself to debates across a range of areas and, in so doing, redefines the philosophical enterprise.A number of chapters in The Lyotard Reader appear for the first time in English. This is the most comprehensive collection available of Lyotard’s work, work has profoundly influenced debates on the Enlightenment, on modernity, on postmodernity, on the transmission f information, on literary theory and on philosophy.” (more) |
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TWO centuries after Gutenberg invented movable type in the mid-1400s there were plenty of books around, but they were expensive and poorly made. In Britain a cartel had a lock on classic works such as Shakespeare’s and Milton’s. The first copyright law, enacted in the early 1700s in the Bard’s home country, was designed to free knowledge by putting books in the public domain after a short period of exclusivity, around 14 years. Laws protecting free speech did not emerge until the late 18th century. Before print became widespread the need was limited. Now the information flows in an era of abundant data are changing the relationship between technology and the role of the state once again. Many of today’s rules look increasingly archaic. Privacy laws were not designed for networks. Rules for document retention presume paper records. And since all the information is interconnected, it needs global rules. New principles for an age of big data sets will need to cover six broad areas: privacy, security, retention, processing, ownership and the integrity of information. |
✖ Via The Economist: “A special report on managing information: New rules for big data”, Feb 25th, 2010. |
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Paul Stiff, a reader in typography and graphic communication at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, studies information design, and he is fascinated by these fragments of “demotic” wayfinding. Stiff has been accumulating homespun maps for three decades now. One of his very first finds: a map picked up from the floor of a corridor at his work, something that was “literally, a back-of-the-envelope sketch. Stiff believes that we amateurs have something to teach the pros. Our maps are efficient—they edit out unnecessary information. |
✖ Via Slate: “Do You Draw Good Maps?” by Julia Turner, March 4, 2010 This article is part of an ongoing series by Julia Turner focusing on “The Secret Language of Signs”. Previously on Skandalon: maps. |
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I’m doing this because I like accountability and transparency, and I believe in public service. And it is the complete opposite of everything else I do. Maybe I’ll learn something. The practical consequence is that I will probably go to Washington several days each month, in addition to whatever homework and phone meetings are necessary. |
✖ Via Edward Tufte: “Edward Tufte Presidential Appointment” March 7th, 2010“Edward Tufte is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University. He wrote, designed, and self-published The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Envisioning Information, Visual Explanations, and Beautiful Evidence, which have received 40 awards for content and design. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Society for Technical Communication, and the American Statistical Association. He received his PhD in political Science from Yale University and BS and MS in statistics from Stanford University.” Previously on Skandalon |
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In recent years there have been big advances in displaying massive amounts of data to make them easily accessible. This is emerging as a vibrant and creative field melding the skills of computer science, statistics, artistic design and storytelling. “Every field has some central tension it is trying to resolve. Visualisation deals with the inhuman scale of the information and the need to present it at the very human scale of what the eye can see,” says Mr Wattenberg, who has since moved to IBM and now spearheads a new generation of data-visualisation specialists. |
✖ Via The Economist: “A Special Report on Managing Information: Show Me” Feb 25th, 2010 About Martin Wattenberg: “Martin Wattenberg is a computer scientist and artist. He is the founding manager of IBM’s Visual Communication Lab, which researches new forms of visualization and how they can enable better collaboration. The lab’s latest project is Many Eyes (http://www.many-eyes.com), an experiment in open, public data visualization and analysis.” (more) Visit Martin Wattenberg official site. |
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