Recently recieved You know nothing of my work by Doug Coupland.
I shared this page because mapping the knowlegde, synapses in the brain and thoughts, to try represent the self in some visual and communicable level inspired me in my studies. To present them to provide understanding of my knowledge is what got me into mind mapping. Essays of just long written linear text of roughly 12 words-per-line, 500 words-per-page, just isn't enough for me. Macluhan studied the mapping of the brain and called it Pathogrpahy, and i'm sure i'll be digggin deeper into his research. Dont want to spoil the book but phew, macluhan had an interesting perspective on women... reflected by the times i suppose.
Saw his book from this brilliant documentary here, cant believe you can sit have a coffee while a chosen book is freshly printed. (smell the middle) Long live the printed book!
By the way just found this beautiful tutorial from these: here
Long Live the Printed Book!
22 Visualisation Styles
Data visualisation is a no doubt popular and growing field with many innovative solutions arising every day, there are a few places that try to help structure and define this field for some clarity and hopefully more creative decisions.
Decisions such as the usually struggling question of what style/type of visualisation form should I use?
I saw Info Many Eyes had useful thumbnails and defintions of the types of visualisations it offers, and Joel Laumans made a fantastic booklet on the subeject that had many types that weren't included. Therefore I wanted to unify their defintions and style types in a table. Bit of a challenge deciding how they should line up together as some are the same and others not or are categorised differently. I think it was Correlations with Joel's grouping that I had to split to fit with Many Eyes.
If you cant see this table, it may be because it is viewed in an rss, click here to see the table
Also useful on the topic of data visualisation and infovis Manuel Lima has produced a provocative manifesto to aid in this effort to help bring some structure to our complicated and diverse visual forms.
analysed here: http://bbh-labs.com/do-not-glorify-aesthetics-a-manifesto-for-data-visualisation
“Information Visualisation Manifesto”, 'a provocative (but characteristically generous and nuanced) take on the future of data visualisation which tackles head on the thorny questions at the heart of this ever-expanding field:
Art versus Science
Intrigue versus Immediacy
Aesthetics versus apprehension. '
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/blog/?p=644
Watch and listen to him here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/manuel-lima-visual-complexity
He also was complimented on his writing by Stephen few (author. Information Dashboard Design plus other books) in an intersting article that got me stirred into a comment as well as Ben at http://www.datavisualization.ch/.
http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=613
If you know of more styles not featured or would like to elaborate the defintions, styles, or you know of someone elses lists and categories that I could append please feel free to comment. I hope this helps a beginner or even more experienced data visualiser, infographic maker decide the best format to enhance and communicate their data sets.
Again many thanks for the thumbnails Joel.
Designing Data Interviews
As I research I came accross these useful written/video interviews, some useful people on design of information and other fields like Info Architecture (isometric styles), Interactive Mapping, Knowledge Visualisation, Info Visualisation (more computer mediated). Please post links to interviews on the subject you have read and help me with my research.
Gerlinde Schuller - Editor. Designing Universal Knowledge
Jer Thorp - Artist and Educator
Jason Kottke & Nicholas Felton - Feltron Report
Eric Rodenbeck - Stamen Design
Manuel Lima - creator Visual Complexity
Andrew Vande Moere - creator Information Aesthetics
Paul Kahn - creator Kahn Associates. former partner with Kris Lenk at
Dynamic Diagrams
Aaron Koblin
Steve Duenes. NYT Graphics Director
Interviews
Gerlinde Schuller - Editor. Designing Universal Knowledge
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/serialconsign/~3/yfOjeB53Y7E/gerlinde-schuller-interview
by greg j smith
'A month ago I posted an enthusiastic review of Designing universal knowledge, a book written and designed by Gerlinde Schuller. What fascinates me so much about this writing project is the rigor with which it ]catalogues the structures, technologies and institutions that package and
sanction knowledge. Gerlinde heads up the Information Design Studio, an Amsterdam-based organization "specializing in the development and design of complex information systems" that are used for visual explanation and journalism, as navigation aids and as tools for consulting.'
Jer Thorp
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/serialconsign/~3/vzvYLpR49T0/jer-thorp-interview by
greg j smith
'Jer Thorp is a software artist and educator based in Vancouver with a wonderful knack for creating work that draws on (and questions) a variety of disciplines. Genetics, biological growth,
questions of representation and the emergent logic and aesthetics of large, collective pools of content are all topics of exploration in his projects. Jer teaches at Langara College’s Electronic Media Design Program, is quite active on the international new media lecture circuit and will be running a creative coding workshop this summer. Jer and I started chatting about a post of his
on data, conspiracy and the work of Mark Lombardi and that conversation evolved into the following interview.'
Jeff Veen
http://infothesis.yanamitchell.com/post/98777299
'jeff Veen Talk: Designing for “Big Data” - information aesthetics'
Jason Kottke & Nicholas Felton - Feltron Report
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WehrInTheWorld/~3/gLL4z-x0QNo/nicholas-felton-and-jason-kottke.html by justin wehr
'Professional blogger Jason Kottke links to an interview he did with CBC's Spark radio show.
Spark caught my attention by also having a recent interview with Nicholas Felton, creator of the Feltron annual reports and co-founder of Daytum.
I enjoyed both interviews. One topic from the Kottke interview that I had not thought of before was the idea of "extreme borrowing", where bloggers extract the main points of a piece of
content for their post, thereby creating little need for readers to visit the source of that content and read the whole thing'
Eric Rodenbeck - Stamen Design
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/04/eric_rodenbeck_information_visualization_is_a_medium.html
by andrew vande moere
'This post contains 2 recorded talks from Eric Rodenbeck, founder and creative director of Stamen Design, the visualization design lab known for projects like Trulia Hindsight,Digg
Labs, SFMOMA ArtScope and Flickr Clock.
The first talk is titled "Information Visualization is a Medium". Information visualization is becoming more than a set of tools and technologies and techniques to understand large datasets. It is emerging as a medium in its own right, with a wide range of expressive potential. Eric Rodenbeck provides an overview of the studio's recent projects, and insight into the studio's working process. This talk was given last year at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2008 in San Diego.
The second talk is titled "Mapping Now: Dynamic Realtime Maps and Other Pictures", and is basically the last part of the previous talk without the speedy fast-forwarding. Maps are never pefect representations of reality, and increasingly they are out of date before they are finished. Complicating matters, mapping of live phenomena (geospatial or otherwise) is becoming more
and more prevelant, and even expected. Looking back to earlier representations of movement can help us figure out how to represent the fluid spaces that mapping is moving in to. The talk was given last year at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, in Burlingame.
Both talks can be watched below.'
Manuel Lima - creator Visual Complexity
Manuel Lima Visual Complexity from digup.tv on Vimeo.
Manuel's website has no doubt been an inspiration all in data visualisation and information graphics. Manuel Lima is an interaction designer, information architect and design researcher. He currently works as a Senior User Experience Designer at Nokia's NextGen Software & Services in London. Manuel is also a frequent speaker in conferences and festivals around the world, on the topic of Information Visualization, in particular the visualization of complex networks. About Visual Complexity VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of
disciplines from Biology to Social Networks, and, to be a space that inspires, motivates and enlightens any person doing research on this field.
see also: Blogviz. mapping the dynamics of information. manuel lima
Andrew Vande Moere - creator Information Aesthetics
Also see this, remembered this was around, andrew vande moere of info aesthetics
http://pingmag.jp/2007/03/23/infosthetics-form-follows-data/
Paul Kahn - creator Kahn Associates. former partner with Kris Lenk at Dynamic
Diagrams
As part of the ongoing series “An American Summer” from The French Creative Connection, Thibaut Estellon has interviewed Paul Kahn, information archtitect extraordinary. Paul Kahn and his studio Kahn + Associates are specialized in creating visualizations of information architectures. Originally from Manhattan, New York he founded his information design studio in Paris back in 2001.
The interview is a healthy mixture between discussing design challenges in information architecture as well as human factors of an American living and working in Paris. Unfortunately the interview is written in French but Google does quite a nice job by translating it for the english speaking community.
Many thanks Paul for your help with the magazine.
Aaron Koblin
Video Interview with Aaron Koblin from http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/%3ca%20href= by
Étapes has published a comprehensive video interview with Aaron Koblin. If you haven’t come across Aaron’s work yet I recommend having a look at Flight Patterns and the House of Cards video for Radiohead as a starting point. In the interview he talks about his interest in generative art and information visualization as a way to display cultural tendencies and models emerging today.
Steve Duenes. NYT Graphics Director
At SIGGRAPH 2009, Keynote Speaker Steve Duenes talks about design, technology and properly limiting your work as it pertains to his role as the New York Times Graphics Director.