4. Technologies
❖ Flash used to be a big deal, and many installations still
use it
❖ Processing got a huge following by targeting artists and
designers (non-coders) and focusing on outputs
❖ d3.js has grown huge
❖ TONS of other libraries
5. Strategies
❖ don’t write what you don’t have to
❖ spend a lot of time sketching
❖ choose your tech based on our medium of display
7. Background
❖ Mike Bostock from the NYT
❖ bringing jQuery-style approach to dom manipulation
❖ transitions baked in
❖ low-level library for creative viz
11. Background
❖ Ben Fry and Casey Reas in Madea’s old group here
❖ comes from a lineage of “design playground” tools (with
domain-specific languages)
❖ took off with designers and artists in trendy schools
❖ copious documentation and examples