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The Power of Networks: Knowledge in an age of infinite interconnectedness
08 Dec 2011 Manuel Lima , senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, explores the power of network visualisation to help navigate our complex modern world. You are welcome to link to, download, save or distribute our audio/video files electronically.
Want a job where the talent is scarce — and likely to remain that way for at least the next five years? Become a data scientist. That, at least, is the conclusion of a global survey of the number-crunching professionals by IT service company EMC.
Career of the Future: Data Scientist [INFOGRAPHIC]
Few, Stephen
Tufte, Edward
McCandless, David
Rosling, Hans
Fry, Ben
Given a bitmap image of a chart, ReVision applies computer vision methods to identify the visualization type, extract the underlying data, and generate redesigned visualizations.
Heer, Jeffrey
The effort of Analisi Grafica spread is to combine and organize data, select and choose how to display it in order to tell a story that can be an alternative to writing an article of ten thousand words or more. In this way an infographic is at the same time design but also narrative . This means a union between graphics and journalism because it is not only a representation but also an interpretation of the reality. View more Letteratura Grafica , through non-linear infographic language, aims to translate into two-dimensional spaces the relationships and connections between the characters and the elements of the story. The goal is to produce synoptic maps that allow the relationships between the elements of literary narrative to be seen, and specifically, to show complex relationships in a more easily understood way using linear forms.
Francesco Franchi – Infographics
Whoa. What did I just read? I think most of you know of Freakonomics, but in case you don't, it started as a book in 2005, by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner. The book examines corners of life (like cheating in sumo) through data. It's a good read.
