Enrico Bertini Edward Tufte Edward Tufte is a statistician and artist, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University. He wrote, designed, and self-published 4 classic books on data visualization. The New York Times described ET as the "Leonardo da Vinci of data," and Business Week as the "Galileo of graphics." He is now writing a book/film The Thinking Eye and constructing a 234-acre tree farm and sculpture park in northwest Connecticut, which will show his artworks and remain open space in perpetuity. He founded Graphics Press, ET Modern gallery/studio, and Hogpen Hill Farms LLC. Visual Display of Quantitative Information 200 pages Envisioning Information 128 pages Visual Explanations 160 pages Beautiful Evidence 214 pages Same paper and printing as in original clothbound editions. All 4 clothbound books, autographed by author $150 Available directly from Graphics Press. Die visuelle Darstellung quantitativer Informationen, (200 Seiten), $12 数量情報の視覚的表示, (200 ページ)、$12
Teaching — Enrico Bertini I have taught Information Visualization at NYU Tandon every year since 2012. The course focuses on how to design, develop and evaluate interactive data visualization solutions for complex data analysis problems. This page links to material I developed for the course. Feel free to use it in your course or to study visualization on your own. Lecture Slides Google folder containing my slides: Exercises I designed these exercises for my flipped-classroom version of the course: Data Abstraction (describe data in ways useful to vis design)Data Analysis (perform data analysis with a goal)Chart Encoding and Decoding (deconstruct a chart and encode the same data in different ways)Vis Design: Ballot Maps (design a visualization for a specific problem)Vis Design: Twitter Sentiment (design a visualization for a specific problem)Course Recap (recall main concepts from the course) Course Diary
Alberto Cairo / The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization From Data Visualization to Interactive Data Analysis [Note: this essay is the written, expanded and refined version of the talk I gave at the Uber Data Visualization meetup organized in NYC on Oct. 26, 2017. You can watch the video here (sorry, very bad quality) and get access to the original slides here.] TL;DR: Visualization projects with high visibility focus on two main purposes: inspiration and explanation. Visualization can however be used (and is actually used) to increase understanding of complex problems through data analysis. These project are less visible but by no means less important. Three main uses of data visualization I know I am running the risk of falling into gross simplification. Inspirational. Why talk more about data analysis? This essay, and the talk that preceded it, aims at better defining the role of visualization in data analysis and spurring more conversations about what is happening in this area of visualization which, unfortunately, it’s not blessed with the same limelight of the other purposes. Did you notice?
Tamara Munzner, UBC Home Page Tamara Munzner InfoVis Group Professor Department of Computer Science, University of British ColumbiaImager Graphics, Visualization and HCI Lab Email: tmm (at) cs.ubc.ca, Phone: 604-827-5200, Fax: 604-822-5485, Twitter: @tamaramunzner Snailmail: 201-2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada Office: X661, in X-Wing extension behind ICICS/CS buildingOffice Hours: by appointment (email me) Calendar: My free/busy calendar
Data Viz Pioneer Nicholas Felton: "There Is A Real Shadow Over Data" | Co.Design | business + design Khoi Vinh, HTGT: What was your career ambition while you were at Rhode Island School of Design? Did you want to get a job at an agency or studio, or start your own agency or studio? Nicholas Felton: RISD is not a school that focuses on what’s going to happen when you leave its doors. Was that discouraging to get that bit of cold water splashed in your face? After working at an agency, DeMassimo, you started to produce your now-famous annual reports? When did you realize people would be willing to pay for it? The first time I charged was 2007, at five dollars a piece, strictly as an experiment to see whether I could recoup some of the printing costs. Was that an eye-opening moment for you? Yes, and it was about that time, in 2007 or early 2008, that I saw how robust this world of working with data was. I got editorial commissions, and at first they just wanted me to apply some nice typography to their charts and graphs. What happened when Facebook came calling? Why is that? It’s too hard.
research Many non-equilibrium processes in nature are contagion processes that spread though a system after an initial, localized outbreak occurs somewhere. News, fads, fashion and also infectious diseases spread by a combination of replication and propagation. Large scale epidemic events, such as the 2003 worldwide spread of SARS, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic are events that can be understood in terms of mathematical contagion models. A main focus of our research is the understanding of the dynamics of human infectious diseases. We develop computational models, new analytic and numerical techniques and large-scale quantitative and predictive computer simulations to study various aspects of the dynamics of epidemics.