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Reads tagged with “data visualization”

Francesco Franchi on Visual Storytelling and Representation vs. Interpretation
Francesco Franchi on Visual Storytelling and Representation vs. Interpretation

On the design as journalism and how to navigate the spectrum between art and information.

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Schematics: A Love Story in Geometric Diagrams
Schematics: A Love Story in Geometric Diagrams

The mathematical poetics of time, or what matrices reveal about the matters of the heart.

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Network: The Secret Life of Your Personal Data, Animated
Network: The Secret Life of Your Personal Data, Animated

Disclosing 736 daily pieces of self, or what we talk about when we talk about privacy.

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Occupy Scales of Wealth: Income Inequality Visualized as NYC Map
Occupy Scales of Wealth: Income Inequality Visualized as NYC Map

From Red Hook to Prince Edward Island by way of the 99 percent.

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A Mosaic Time-Lapse Visualization of the Sky for an Entire Year
A Mosaic Time-Lapse Visualization of the Sky for an Entire Year

Syncing the celeste, or how to touch the fabric of time.

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The Art of Medicine: Mapping the Body in 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination
The Art of Medicine: Mapping the Body in 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination

From ancient etchings to electron microscopes, or what aspirin has to do with visualizing consciousness.

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Manuel Lima on the Power of Knowledge Networks in the Age of Infinite Connectivity
Manuel Lima on the Power of Knowledge Networks in the Age of Infinite Connectivity

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An Illustrated Visualization of What Happens on Earth in a Single Second
An Illustrated Visualization of What Happens on Earth in a Single Second

What a whale’s song has to do with the Helios II satellite and the beat of the pigmy shrew’s heart.

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What is Generative Art? A 7-Minute PBS Micro-Documentary
What is Generative Art? A 7-Minute PBS Micro-Documentary

The rhetoric of data, or how to reconcile human and algorithm in the age of collective intelligence.

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Stefanie Posavec on Her Obsessive Analog Data Visualization
Stefanie Posavec on Her Obsessive Analog Data Visualization

Inside the brain of one of today’s most creative information patternists.

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