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Victoria Hughes

Visualize This: new book from Flowing Data's Nathan Yau

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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Tom Johnson

Re: [sfx: Discuss] Visualize This: new book from Flowing Data's Nathan Yau

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 <[hidden email]> 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
<[hidden email]> 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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www.analyticjournalism.com
505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h)
http://www.jtjohnson.com [hidden email]
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Owen Densmore

Re: [sfx: Discuss] Visualize This: new book from Flowing Data's Nathan Yau

Administrator

+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 <[hidden email]> 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 <[hidden email]> 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
>> <[hidden email]> 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 [hidden email]
> ==========================================
>
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Victoria Hughes

Re: [sfx: Discuss] Visualize This: new book from Flowing Data's Nathan Yau

Someone post a summary: I have clients and can't make WedTech but am
interested in pursuing this.
Thanks-

Tory

On Jun 19, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:

> +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 <[hidden email]>
> 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
>> <[hidden email]> 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
>>> <[hidden email]> 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 [hidden email]
>> ==========================================
>>
>> --
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>> Fe Complex
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