+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.
>> >
>> > --
>
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