visual info

http://www.lifeaftercollege.org/blog/2009/12/11/visual-miscellaneum-book/

Maps as we know them:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/blaise_aguera.html

how does the brain lean to see???

Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?
http://www.ted.com/talks/gary_flake_is_pivot_a_turning_point_for_web_exploration.html

Some helpful sites and other examples
INFORMATION IS BEAUTIFUL (http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/)

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/08/29/opinion/20090829-smell-map-feature.html?th&emc=thhttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/08/29/opinion/20090829-smell-map-feature.html?th&emc=th

Images from: http://www.mapthemind.com/thinkingmaps/thinkingmaps.html

http://cva-oad-spring2010.blogspot.com/2010/01/strong-mapping-projects.html

http://dharsi.tu mblr.com/

David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization

Taken from Ted Talks

His website: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

Books:

The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia [Paperback]

David McCandless
(Author)

Information is Beautiful [Hardcover]

David McCandless

(Author)

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Bio taken from: http://www.ted.com/speakers/david_mccandless.html

David McCandless: Data journalist

"David McCandless draws beautiful conclusions from complex datasets -- thus revealing unexpected insights into our world.

David McCandless makes infographics -- simple, elegant ways to see information that might be too complex or too big, small, abstract or scattered to otherwise be grasped. In his new book, Information Is Beautiful (in the US, it's being called The Visual Miscellaneum), McCandless and his cadre of info designers take a spin through the world of visualized data, from hard stats on politics and climate to daffy but no less important trends in pop music.
McCandless' genius is not so much in finding jazzy new ways to show data -- the actual graphics aren't the real innovation here -- as in finding fresh ways to combine datasets to let them ping and prod each other. Reporting the number of drug deaths in the UK every year is interesting; but mapping that data onto the number of drug deaths reported by the UK press, broken down by drug, is utterly fascinating (more deaths by marijuana were reported than in fact occurred, by a factor of 484%). McCandless contributes a monthly big-think graphic to the Guardian's Data Blog, and makes viral graphics for his blog Information Is Beautiful.

"It's not just the sheer variety of topics covered -- though knowing the relative effect of rising sea levels or the prime vintage years for red and white wines by country will come in handy someday soon, I'm certain -- but the way in which, for many of these charts, there's considerably more than meets the eye."

Chris Bilton, Eye Weekly review of The Visual Miscellaneum"

Information is Beautiful

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/leftvright_world.html

Visual-Mapping.com: Mind-Mapping, Design and Social Media
http://www.visual-mapping.com/2009/11/cycle-of-life.html

A SLIDE SHOW BY RICHARD BARLOW!!! (NOT BY ME!!!)

Mapping Exploration and IN CLASS Experimentation

Abbi Allan – Fall, 2010

Mental Map

A “mental map” is a visual method for tracking information in a comparative way. It is often from a specific point of view, distilling what we see to just the critical points being addressed. By using design, scale, location, colors, fonts, graphics, relationships, text and concepts simultaneously – a person can get across hours upon hours of research in a single image.

Scientists use it to communicate their data. Artists and designers use mapping as a conceptual framework for their process. Graphic and product designers use mapping to instantly get across a complex concept about some thing, some one, an item etc. in a matter of seconds – and it goes on and on.

“Mapping” presents an interpretation of information - rather than a precise record of geography or appearance. While standard maps as used by sociologists enter the realm of mental maps, other things such as flowcharts, Venn-diagrams, and schematics are mental maps as well.

Watch in class:

David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html

For these experiments - you will:

- Work together in an assigned pairs

- Complete the visual information mapp before the end of class & present to the class.

- As a team, you will develop your “mental map” by comparing visually 2 or 3 concepts or facts in relationship to each other of your choice. Think of this as visually tracking some kind of information (and their relationship to each other) and create a (2-D) visual of this representation of their connections between them and relationship between them

For example:

The amount of white space around an art piece in relationship to its value?

The separation between the wealthy and middle class related to economic crashes?

The ratio between Marshmallows, colors, and nutritional value (3 factors) – to sales?

Hit albums in relation to song length, album art, and market they are aimed at?

Relationship between the MIA, the Walker, and the Midway and its financial support

Ect ect

- (Avoid the cliché and often less interesting or graphic ‘floor plan’ map, but think more in the vein of graphic, mapping, and visualizing information)

Some helpful sites and other examples

INFORMATION IS BEAUTIFUL (http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/)

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/08/29/opinion/20090829-smell-map-feature.html?th&emc=th

Images from: http://www.mapthemind.com/thinkingmaps/thinkingmaps.html

http://cva-oad-spring2010.blogspot.com/2010/01/strong-mapping-projects.html

http://dharsi.tu mblr.com/

Homework

READING

• Read Chapter 4: Barrett “Interpreting Art”

• Take Notes

• Be prepared for in-class discussion.

OTHER