Designing for Big Data
Jeffrey Veen (Small Batch, Inc.) gave a great talk on data visualization at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco recently (March 31-April 3, 2009). He provides a history of usage of visualizations, including the first subway map (the tube map) and John Snow’s map that is credited with ending the 1854 cholera outbreak in Soho, London. He then talks about how visualizations have changed from telling a story, to allowing users to discover their own stories.
It’s a clear, concise (20 minutes), and modern look at information visualization.
[Veen.com via Waxy.org Links and information aesthetics]
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