Information Graphics cont’d April 21, 2008
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and an interesting article on FlowingData
Review of portfolio websites
Information Graphics ppt cont’d
Efficiency of data
- Display of maps intended for instructions
- Spark lines: invented by Edward Tufte are intense, simple word sized graphics, used in news and sports data
- Maps could be considered in the same context and can be inherently inefficient
Graphs that incorporate interactivity and animation
Other nice examples:
visualizing relationships between websites: walk2web
Wikisky
Thought Leaders
Edwad Tufte: Author of Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Thesis is the elimination of the superfluous
John Grimwade: Illustrator, designer
Nigel Holmes: information designer
Martin Wattenberg at IBM known for visualizations (look at History Flow, Thinking Machine and Shape of Song)
A slight digression from infographics to look at some practical rules on using grids in design [ppt]
and recommend reading Making and Breaking the Grid by Timothy Samara
and Mark Boulton’s blog: five easy steps to designing grid systems.
and as it applies to the web [Grids are good PDF]
by Khoi Vinh andMark Boulton
Unigrid of National Park Service brochures by Vignelli [flickr]
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ASSIGNMENT
Visualize some aspect of your life. Collect data and represent it using any one or a combination of the graph types discussed in class. A good reference for this project and Daytum
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