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A few days ago, the Sunlight Labs blog put a post up, titled " Should data.gov Visualize? Probably Not " [sunlightlabs.com]. In terms of provoking you to read, I have copied their title for this post as well.
Should data.gov Visualize? Probably Not.
Data visualization and all things related continued its ascent this year with projects popping up all over the place.
10 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2010
The Don’ts of Infographic Design
Written by Amy Balliett of Killer Infographics, the post in question is basically tips for how to create linkbait that doesn't work. Or at least I hope it doesn't. Let's take it from the top. Infographics are visual representations of information, or "data viz" as the cool kids call it these days. The term "data viz" comes from "data visualization," which implies that sets of data will be displayed in a unique way that can be seen, rather than read. I'm not going to get into the semantics .
Now that Obama's dog has won the War on Christmas, or something, it's time to get down to a war that really matters: the war on terrible, lying infographics, which have become endemic in the blogosphere, and constantly threaten to break out into epidemic or even pandemic status. The reservoir of this disease of erroneous infographics is internet marketers who don't care whether the information in their graphics is right ... just so long as you link it.
Business - Megan McArdle - Ending the Infographic Plague
9 Powerful Free Infographic Tools To Create Your Own Infographics - DATA VISUALIZATION
9 Powerful Free Infographic Tools To Create Your Own Infographics A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Infographics Infographics are everywhere, and we can’t get enough of them! By presenting information in a compact and creative format, infographics are able to quickly convey knowledge and engage its viewers.We get a lot of infographic pitches. Almost all of them suck .
Why "Infographic Thinking" Is The Future, Not A Fad
There’s a growing backlash against that form of content known as the infographic. Useless eye-candy or handy reference? Om Malik, in a post, asks: Can someone please stop the infographic madness?
Kill This Infographic (infographic) |
Journalism in the Age of Data
In the words of Terrell Owens, get your popcorn ready, because this video (below) is awesome. During his Knight Journalism fellowship at Stanford, Geoff McGhee interviewed visualization trendsetters on how they deal and what they do with data in Journalism in the Age of Data :Infographics on the web are so bad and so broken . They are everywhere, yet few actually do a decent job of conveying information (click on the one at left to see what I mean). Some even argue that they are ruining the Internet .
Infographics Are Broken. We Can Do Better. | Erick Schonfeld: TechStream
Abstract Our goal is to reveal temporal variations in videos that are difficult or impossible to see with the naked eye and display them in an indicative manner. Our method, which we call Eulerian Video Magnification, takes a standard video sequence as input, and applies spatial decomposition, followed by temporal filtering to the frames. The resulting signal is then amplified to reveal hidden information. Using our method, we are able to visualize the flow of blood as it fills the face and also to amplify and reveal small motions.
Eulerian Video Magnification
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