I’m in Vancouver for the next few days at Web Directions North, where I’ll be talking about Information Visualization as a Medium
Blurb:
“Information visualization is becoming more than a set of tools and technologies and techniques to understand large data sets. It is emerging as a medium in its own right, with a wide range of expressive potential.
“Stamen’s work in visualization and mapping is among the most high profile online today, with the live dynamic displays at Digg Labs and Cabspotting being just two of many examples. The studio’s approach is deeply pragmatic, always starting with real data and aiming to work with graphics on screen as soon as possible. Though all analysis is a work in progress, a project is usually finished when it shows something nobody has seen before, or builds a vocabulary for describing a system, or offers more questions than answers. And then the process begins again.”
Update (Jan 31 2pm PST): The MySociety maps I talked about in my talk today are online here, and Tom has done a very nice writeup on his blog. I haven’t had time to officially put the project on Stamen yet, and a few people have asked about it. Go look!
And then on Feb. 8, I’ll be speaking in New York alongside Adam Greenfield, J. Meejin Yoon, and Christian Nold at the New Museum’sNextcity: The Art of the Possible:
Adam’s blurb:
“Emergent digital technologies are rapidly changing both the face of our cities and our daily experience of them, whether invoked in the production of architectural form, the representation of urban space, or our interface to the locative and other services newly available there. Dynamic maps update in real time; garments and spaces deform in response to environmental, biological and even psychological conditions. We find our very emotions made visible, public, and persistently retrievable. Somewhere along the way, we find our notions of public space, participation, and what it means to be urban undergoing the most profound sort of change.”