Data is boring, information is interesting! I’ve always used this statement whenever the issue of data is being discussed. No one is really interested in looking at a large number of data rows, or even a small one. As humans, we tend to better understand a particular issue when it is presented to us in [...]
I’ve written about Hans Rosling’s awesome 2006 TED conference presentation on income distribution and birth rates in the non-industrialized world. He used a tool for data visualization that was new at the time, and has since been integrated into many toolsets, including Google Analytics.
At TED 2007, he stepped back up to show how his work [...]
Gary Flake, a Technical Fellow at Microsoft, demo’d Pivot at TED 2010 last month. Pivot is built on Seadragon technology, and allows for us to move beyond the simple form of searching we’ve been doing, and start to interact more creatively with massive amounts of data. And not just raw quantitative data, but visual content.
He [...]
Data visualization super star Edward Tufte has been called upon by the Obama administration to join the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board.
Tufte is known for a series of book on graphic design, particularly when it comes to the visualization of data. I went to a full day seminar of his in 1996, and became baptized [...]
