Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?

From TED: "Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing."

Pivot is still an experiment, not a finished product. It isn't available for Mac or Linux yet, and not even to Windows xp users.

visit http://memo.hardrock.com to view a Pivot collection inside of Silverlight. The interface is different than Pivot's, but there's nothing stopping anyone from porting the controls over to a Silverlight app.

This demo also shows how important that is to make your data computer readable , i.e. semantically tagged.

Cheap Pop Song

So fun to watch it.

Cheap Pop Song from Rhett Dashwood on Vimeo.

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Edward Tufte

"Sometimes decorations can help editorialize about the substance of the graphic. But it's wrong to distort the data measures—the ink locating values of numbers—in order to make an editorial comment or fit a decorative scheme." Edward Tufte
His website: http://www.edwardtufte.com/

David Stack's notes from a seminar by Edward R. Tufte (8/17/9)

Book for infographic

Dona Wong: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics

"In today's data-driven world, professionals need to know how to express themselves in the language of graphics effectively and eloquently. Yet information graphics is rarely taught in schools or is the focus of on-the-job training. Now, for the first time, Dona M. Wong, a student of the information graphics pioneer Edward Tufte, makes this material available for all of us. "

Wong began her visual jouralism career at the New York Times in the 1990s as the business graphic editor and worked as a graphics director at the Wall Street Journal from 2001. Recently, She has been appointed the strategy director for information at Sigel+Gale.

The first time for a graphic designer

Milton Glaser received the 2009 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. The first time for a graphic designer. See full event here on White House video.

Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages

Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages, a video looking back at the pictograms of Olympic games. To know the evolution and hear Steven Heller 's criticism about the design. Source form New York Times.

Image

A fine image.

Josef Müller-Brockmann’s visualization

Josef Müller-Brockmann’s visualization: a personal web research project about Josef Müller-Brockmann and the international typographical style by Quentin Delobel

More resource for infographic

visual-literacy.org
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

You’ll find many more amazing infographics on the following websites:

• Info Graphics Flickr Group
  Charts, graphs, facts, anything that is about information or visualizing information.
• InfoVis Flickr Group
  Information Visualization: The creation of something visual from something abstract. Graphs, maps, charts, numbers. The compression of data and the expansion of meaning. Scientific, creative, useful, worthless.

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