Submitted for your entertainment, a TED talk by David McCandless, (@infobeautiful) who pens one of my favorite data visualization blogs, Information is Beautiful.
David does a great job explaining succinctly why we love data visualizations; they solve the information overload problem everyone has by exposing patterns and connections immediately.
Obviously, visualizing data is not a new profession. However, like many things democratized by the intertubes, it has become increasingly accessible, e.g. David only began his adventures in information beautifying a year ago.
I love data visualizer as a new profession. It’s a great combination of designer, hacker, statistician, mathematician, detective, showman and artist. I’ll bet a lot of web designers will migrate into data visualization as the tools and data sets become more standard.
Anyway, your thoughts on any of this belong in the comments.
Hi Jake – I saw this, and though of you – more data pr0n!
http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/
Excellent, thanks for the tip.