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Information Graphics cont’d April 21, 2008

Posted by kd49 in : Class 11 - Inforgraphics cont'd, Classes , trackback

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and an interesting article on FlowingData

Excellent example of information design and animation: IOUSA animation

Information Graphics ppt cont’d

Efficiency of data

Graphs that incorporate interactivity and animation

Other nice examples:

Obama’s first 100 days

republican debate

visualizing relationships between websites: walk2web

Wikisky

Population density

Murder in New York City

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)

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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

Continue to make progress with your portfolio website and be prepared to discuss it with the class.

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