3. Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of
data, meaning "information that has been abstracted in some
schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units
of information".
- Michael Friendly
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4. All good visualizations share these qualities
Thought-provoking
Instructional
Data Dense
Actionable
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7. The exponential growth in the amount of data that is collected
and published by users tethered to their devices on a daily
basis has lead to a renaissance in spacial information
visualization.
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8. How can urban planners embrace data emission to influence
the technical, political, and communal process of planning the
design for urban environments?
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9. Game Designers Do It
2Fort Death Map Team Fortress 2
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11. Unlike in the past publicly available data can now be processes
by smaller institutions and individuals thanks to cheap
processing power & high-level APIs.
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12. Many businesses now expose a portion of the dataset and
encourage collaboration and mash-up opportunities, which
can provide unforeseen insight into the original data.
What can geo-locative data tell you about your communities?
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13. Visualization of the Netflix Queue
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/10/nyregion/20100110-netflix-map.html
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18. Locals vs. Tourists
What is your target audience already broadcasting?
Paris
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19. Visualizing the Costs of
Incarceration in the US
“It cost 17 million dollars to imprison 109 People from these 17 blocks in 2003. We call
these million dollar blocks. On a financial scale prisons are becoming the predominant
governing institution in the neighborhood.”
- Laura Kurgan and Sarah Williams in Metropolis, Jan. 2012
From Columbia University’s Spatial Information Design Lab:
Million Dollar Blocks
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