+1 .. I'd love to hear about the current state of dataviz about my next direction after crawling out of our recent advanced graphics class final project. (Gawd, webgl/gles is BITCHY!)
Wedtech sounds just right. -- Owen On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Amigos: > > In fact, I might know tomorrow or Tuesday about a concerted effort to > liberate some potentially interesting voter registration data from the NM > Sec. of State. If we can get that, and it won't happen quickly, it might > offer an interesting challenge to display -- in a user-selectable manner -- > both statistical data and geo data and a combination of the two. > > And, should anyone be interested, I would be glad to lead a > presentation/discussion (WedTech?) of the recent -- and quite impressive -- > emergence of web-based dataviz tools. > > -tom > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> OK, we talk a great deal about this sort of thing. But doing it is HARD! >> >> So, proposal: we build a nifty working group, composed of artists, >> designers, journalists, mathematicians, and techies. We gotta lot of >> all of these now. The group would investigate "best practices" of >> data viz, along with fairly easy means of doing so .. web based >> naturally. >> >> Lots of questions arise. Tufte's ideas of being as simple and >> uncluttered as possible but with tons of information. What statistics >> are meaningful. Is 3D useful and if so when? How to balance eye >> candy vs compelling. And so on. >> >> Heck, we could even integrate it with a Nickensian Seminar. >> >> -- Owen >> >> >> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Victoria Hughes >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and >> > Statistics >> > A book by Nathan Yau who writes for FlowingData, Visualize This is a >> > practical guide on visualization and how to approach real-world data. >> > The book is published by Wiley and is available for pre-order on >> > Amazon and >> > other major online booksellers. >> > Available July 2011. >> > >> > -- > > ========================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > www.analyticjournalism.com > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] > ========================================== > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Santa Fe Complex > "discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/a/sfcomplex.org/group/discuss > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
