Manuel Lima

His first book Visual Complexity: Mapping patterns of information has been translated into French, Chinese, and Japanese. His latest The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge, published in April 2014 by Princeton Architectural Press, covers over 800 years of human culture through the lens of the tree figure, from its entrenched roots in religious medieval exegesis to its contemporary, secular digital themes. With more than twelve years of experience designing digital products, Manuel has worked for Codecademy, Microsoft, Nokia, R/GA, and Kontrapunkt. He holds a BFA in Industrial Design and a MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons School of Design. During the course of his MFA program, Manuel worked for Siemens Corporate Research Center, the American Museum of Moving Image, and Parsons Institute for Information Mapping in research projects for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Fiona Banner Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. [datavisualisation] « Je sais ce que vous faites sur Internet » Hey ! De nombreux sites que vous fréquentez quotidiennement sont toujours très heureux de recueillir des informations vous concernant. Bon, pas sur Graphism.fr évidemment ;-). Voici donc une visualisation de données qui présente les grands sites sociaux et les types de données qui sont collectées. [voir l'image en grand] Au passage, on appréciera aussi le style graphique de cette visualisation de données, un style qui a su rester simple et élégant avec, comme souvent, une approche vintage tant au niveau des couleurs, que des formes graphiques ou de la composition source Ces articles peuvent aussi vous intéresser:

Cartographie des réseaux : L'art de représenter la complexité - Manuel Lima, Lev Manovich, Jérôme Cukier artforum 2004 Techniques of Today - Bennett Simpson on Bernadette Corporation (Artforum, September 2004) It is the summer of 2001, and the New York--and Paris-based collective known as Bernadette Corporation has temporarily merged with Le Parti Imaginaire, a faction of post-Situationist militants and intellectuals with links to the burgeoning antiglobalization movement. The two groups have their own distinct practices and motivations, but, for the moment, they are united by the idea of making a film, which is to be set in the seaside Italian city of Genoa, amid the protests and stultifying inconclusiveness that will engulf the G8 Summit that July. The film resists knowing what it is or wants to be. And so its makers improvise, exploring what they call the "potential of community based on a radical refusal of political identity." What results is Get Rid of Yourself, an hourlong cine-tract-cum-documentary centering on the experiences and reflections of the so-called Black Bloc. Am I possible?

Une autre visualisation pour Google Analytics… Vous le savez sûrement, j’apprécie terriblement toutes les formes que prennent la visualisation de données. Alors ce matin, je vous présente un travail une série de concepts de visualisation des données de Google. Ces images sont toutes des interfaces basées sur le concept d’agrégation et de visualisation en ligne dans différents médias sociaux… Développé en tandem avec Google Analytics, ces outils interactifs permettent aux utilisateurs d’explorer les statistiques et les médias sociaux sur la durée. > Pour infos le client est Google et l’agence qui a développé ça est l’agence Instrument Ces articles peuvent aussi vous intéresser:

[Review] The Book of Trees, Manuel Lima | the scottbot irregular Tree of Consanguinity, ca. 1450-1510. Page 52. Lima’s book is a history of hierarchical visualizations, most frequently as trees, and often representing branches of knowledge. Biblical Genealogy, ca. 1060. Of course, any project with such a wide scope is bound to gloss over or inaccurately portray some of its historical content. The Blog Tree, 2012. Where the book shines is in its clear, well-cited, contextualized illustrations, which comprise the majority of its contents. Brief Epigrams Visualisation de données des rumeurs sur Twitter ! Pendant les émeutes à Londres l’été dernier, beaucoup d’informations se sont propagées rapidement via Twitter sur ??ce qui se passait. Une partie de cette information était vraie et, comme souvent, l’autre partie était constituée de rumeurs, de choses fausses, etc. Cette analyse basée sur de 2,6 millions de tweets nous suggère que les utilisateurs de Twitter sont capables de corriger la désinformation… jusqu’à un certain point bien-sûr ! source Ces articles peuvent aussi vous intéresser:

MANUEL LIMA Visual Complexity website © Manuel Lima Iker Gil and Andrew Clark interview Manuel Lima Manuel Lima is a leading voice on information visualization. In 2005 he founded Visualcomplexity.com, a website that has become the public resource for anyone interested in information visualization, particularly in the mapping of networks. IG: Trained as an industrial designer, you are currently a senior user experience design lead at Microsoft and a leading voice on information visualization. ML: Even though my background is industrial design I was always interested in the multi-disciplinary nature of design and its various practices, such as graphic design, interface design, motion design, or 3D animation. IG: In October of 2005, you founded Visual Complexity. ML: I started VisualComplexity.com in 2005, in the aftermath of my MFA thesis research, primarily as a personal bookmarking mechanism, to keep track of various topics I was interested in. AC: What visualization recently caught your eye? Notes

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Manuel Lima. Mapping The Information Space Manuel Lima. Mapping The Information Space Data Visualization Generative Art Interviews Software Art In the contemporary media scenario always more information is produced, managed and shared through digital channels, with the consequent production of a huge quantity of data which end up piling up and stratifying in the enormous container which is the Net. He now is a User Experience Senior Designer at Microsoft Bing. Its main characteristic is to explore with an analytical approach different methods of visualization, comparing different disciplines and giving an evolutionary prospective in terms of techniques and aesthetics. On this colossal project Manuel Lima recently based an interesting book entitled “Visual Complexity – Mapping Patterns of Information” ( in which he preserves the usual comparative point of view, starting from the experiences of the website to stretch them in a both diachronic and synchronical point of view.