Information Visualization as a mode of Art Practice

Following along at home today? Watch my compact presentation from Ars Electronica on analog approaches to information visualization:

I then highly recommend watching Paola Antonelli and Manuel Lima’s lectures from the same morning; they accomplish my morning lecture better than me:

Also very good is Amanda Cox’s video from Eyeo Festival 2011:

Regardez:

• Colorshift (Caryn Audenried, IACD student project)
• The Shape of Song (Martin Wattenberg)
• Map of the Market (Martin Wattenberg)
• Baby Name Voyager (Martin Wattenberg)
• ColorCode (Martin Wattenberg)
• Understanding Shakespeare (Stefan Thiel)
• Darwin’s Origin of Species (Ben Fry)
• Zipdecode (2004, Ben Fry)
• We Feel Fine (2006, Jonathan Harris)
• Minard’s map of Napoleon March
• Annual Reports (2005–, Nicholas Felton)

We’ll look at some other links….

• Taxonomy of Data Science (Hilary Mason):
• How to be a data journalist
• Ben Fry PhD thesis, 7 Steps: page 13

We’ll look at the work of some of the following individuals:

• Josh On
• Ben Fry
• Aaron Koblin
• Martin Wattenberg
• Martin Wattenberg / Ferndanda Viegas
• Jonathan Harris
• W. Bradford Paley

We may glance at some chart generators:

• Protovis
• Prefuse, Flare Prefuse
• Google Chart API