These are my slides for the Visweek 2009 panel "Changing the world with visualization", organized by Robert Kosara with Sarah Cohen, Martin Wattenberg and myself.
23. If youmake the data visualizationthat does change the world,
24. If youmake the data visualizationthat does change the world, how do youmake sure that the world findsit?
25. Image credits Know the numberbillboard: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idiotking/3642170000/ An InconvenientTruth, Paramount pictures, 2006 PowerMeter interface, Google, http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/google-powermeters-first-device-partner.html Atlas on the caesium deposition across Europe after the Chernobyl accident (JSP6) http://rem.jrc.ec.europa.eu/atlas.html La France après Tchernobyl, Sortir du nucléaire, 2005.