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Well, we both know the answer: she might be inclined to take me up on my offer either way, but with the second option, she might also be inclined to make me sit on a different row. We know that when we talk to people, we have to do so in a way that feels warm and personal. Why is it then, that when we design systems for people, we want to woo them with option 2?

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Culture + Science is produced by Trigger and commissioned by Creative Scotland’s Creative Futures programme: promoting, connecting and developing Scotland’s creative practitioners. Ansuman Biswas was born in Calcutta and trained in the UK. He has an international practice encompassing music, film, live art, installation, writing and theatre. He is interested in hybridity and interdisciplinarity – often working between science, art and industry, for instance, or between music, dance and visual art. http://www.triggerstuff.co.uk/events/trigger-innovation-science-culture/

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Cool Infographics - Blog

http://www.coolinfographics.com/ Intel has released What About Me? , an automatic infographic generator that connects to your own Twitter, Facebook and YouTube accounts to create a profile infographic about you. Social media users know that discovery is half the fun. With What about Me?
http://chartporn.org/ This has been making the rounds lately. I find it as interesting to look at the minimalist design inherent in modern logos as the ownership concentrations. When scientific advances were first theorized vs when they became reality.

Chart Porn

http://igraphicsexplained.blogspot.com/ Pakistan: drone strike double Ex-Telegraph infographic genius Ciaran Hughes has produced this excellent flash interactive for Channel 4 tv network, his new office since leaving later this year In the last 12 months there have been at least 113 attacks by secret US drones in Pakistan 's mountainous Waziristan region.

iGraphics explained

Sankey Diagrams

http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/ Following up to yesterdays post on the supply chain visualization by TRUTHstudio. Imagine the concept described for the meat production sector blown up to cover the all sectors of the U.S. economy, and showing all the links between these sectors. There you are: Economy Maps , “an interactive visual map of the United States economy and its environmental impacts” by Jason Pearson.
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This is Indexed

This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.

Journalism in the Age of Data: A Video Report on Data Visualization by Geoff McGhee

// Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support scripting // or for those that have scripting disabled. Alternate HTML content should be placed here. This content requires the Adobe Flash Player. Get Flash Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists. http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/

Data Visualization: Modern Approaches - Smashing Magazine

Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data – tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results. In fact, there are much better, profound, creative and absolutely fascinating ways to visualize data .