#infoporn

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Cats Categorized

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A Sea full of Cetaceans

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The Matrix of Whiskey Mixology

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The Great Gatsby chart

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Čeho jsme se dotýkali?

Sixty-two people were asked to make a note of all the objects they touched in a 24-hour period, then gather them together for a photo.

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Work! #atlas2 #pandemics #infographics #infoporn #data #mapping #red #print

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Infoporn - making data beautiful

Thumbing through some infoporn in this month’s wired mag got me percolating about the magic formula to make data beautiful. To bring the formula to life I’m going to share seminal data visualisations that have pushed the boundaries, all from one genius – Jonathan Harris.

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  1. See data differently

Once you see data, not as a unit of measure but evidence of time means anything can represent data e.g. photographs, DNA, feelings. In this way data becomes illuminated rather than measured. Good data raises more questions in a quest to reveal mysteries. 

The best example of this is Jonathan Harris’ depiction of a Whale Hunt. This guy took hundreds of photos of the savage and confronting experience then created an interface which is so rad – you have to use it to believe it. In this infoporn Jonathan chronicled his experience not by time but instead you can choose to see the story from various people’s perspectives or by how Jonathan’s heart rate moved through the experience. Here he illuminates the experience adding layers of emotional data points to heighten your experience, sending a very hard message home.

http://thewhalehunt.org/whalehunt.html

  2.  Making it worthwhile – work with data you love

Think of the data journey as the icing on the cake. It’s about delivering an experience of discovery rather than a conclusion. To tell you story you need some instantly recognizable and infinitely masterful. Be playful, reactive and consistent with your message.

http://wefeelfine.org/

The project titled ‘We Feel Fine’ is an icon of interactive storytelling and data visualization. Every few minutes, an algorithm would scour the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling,” and harvest human emotion by recording the full sentence and context in which the phrase occurs, identifying the polarity (happy, sad, depressed, etc. ) of the specific “feeling” expressed. From sentiments about cities to approval ratings of celebrities to the effects of gender and age on emotion, We Feel Fine picks at the fabric of feeling and thought from all sides and angles to reveal a complex portrait of human essence.

  3. Imbue beauty – by respecting people’s attention

Ensure your visualization embodies true nature, behaves like a gift and respects people’s attention. Think of it like art – improving lives without something in return.

Like Lovelines, a portrait of human desire. It explores the emotional topography between love and hate, as experienced by hundreds of thousands of bloggers.

http://love-lines.org/

We all have the potential to be visual artists by:

Making (it worthwhile)

Data (seeing differently)

Beautiful (gifting like art)