Information visualization (or data that don’t shine*)
May 18 2009
Found this video of Tamara Munzner via Ben Fry’s (Processing co-founder) blog. It’s mostly not pretty info vis per seâ€â€and it’s really math-heavyâ€â€, but it’s very interesting and insightful to get a glimpse at understanding how to displayâ€â€and interpretâ€â€data.
I find it quite refreshing to get an efficiency-driven, engineer-like no-nonsense approach to displaying information. Beware though, Web 2.0 aficionados, no glossy buttons and fancy gradients here.
*graphically speaking