Data Flow
If there is one resource we’re not short of these days it is data. We’re swimming in the stuff and generating it all the time. Making visual sense of all that data requires a fine balance between complexity and simplicity. Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design is an absolutely beautiful collection of some of the finest examples of the art. Before I get onto the content I have to talk about the production. style books. The book is divided into six sections and Onlab describe them thus: Datasphere Using the circle as the first, perfect shape, impossible to achieve by human hand, it derives the tension between what is achieved and what could be achieved. For me the Datanets are beautiful, but perhaps the most obvious ways of displaying data. My favourites are the Datascapes and Datology sections because of the more human aspect to them (and I think conjure up those childhood memories of being fascinated by books like this). Rating: Buy Data Flow from Amazon.com , Amazon.co.uk
Ernst Haeckel
Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Ernst Hæckel Ernst Haeckel en 1860. Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Hæckel (Potsdam, le - Iéna, le ), était un biologiste, philosophe et libre penseur allemand. Il a fait connaître les théories de Charles Darwin en Allemagne et a développé une théorie des origines de l'homme. Ernst Haeckel contribua beaucoup par ses écrits à la diffusion de la théorie de l'évolution. Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] En 1857 et 1858, Ernst Haeckel obtint son doctorat de médecine, puis il obtint son autorisation d'exercer la médecine (Approbation). En 1861, après seulement une année de pratique, il obtint son habilitation et un poste de conférencier (Privat-docent) en anatomie comparée à l’université d'Iéna avant de devenir, l’année suivante professeur extraordinaire d’anatomie comparée à l’institut de zoologie de l’université. En 1862, il épousa sa cousine Agnès Sethe. En 1881-1882, il parcourut les mers tropicales et Ceylan.
Designing Data Visualizations: Julie Steele, Noah Iliinsky
Book Description Publication Date: 2 Oct 2011 Data visualization is an efficient and effective medium for communicating large amounts of information, but the design process can often seem like an unexplainable creative endeavor. This concise book aims to demystify the design process by showing you how to use a linear decision-making process to encode your information visually. Delve into different kinds of visualization, including infographics and visual art, and explore the influences at work in each one. Then learn how to apply these concepts to your design process. Frequently Bought Together Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Product Description Book Description Intentional Communication from Data to Display About the Author Noah Illinsky has spent the last several years thinking about effective approaches to creating diagrams and other types of information visualization. What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item? 2.7 out of 5 stars Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Color as Data: Visualizing Color Composition
by Maria Popova Abstracting glossy magazines, or what pie charts have to do with the Mona Lisa. We love data visualization and color. Computational artist Mario Klingemann, a.k.a. The pie charts represent the distribution of dominant colors within a circle area. Designer Shahee Ilyas‘ amusingly minimalist deconstruction of country flags by color composition is an absolute treat. Besides the playful irreverence, the project reveals some curious patterns of color choice, raising even more curious questions about color symbolism. Data viz superheroes Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas have taken their visualization magic to the world of fashion photography. To create the images in luscious, we began with a series of magazine advertisements for luxury brands. Brain Pickings has a free weekly newsletter and people say it’s cool. Share on Tumblr
Books
Processing for Android: Create Mobile, Sensor-Aware, and VR Applications Using Processing Andrés Colubri. Published 2017, Apress. 381 pages. Paperback. » Order Print/EBook from Apress » Order Print from Amazon Learn how to use the Processing programming language and environment to create Android applications with ease. Processing for Android walks you through the steps of taking an initial idea to a final app. An advantage of Processing for Android over more complex programming environments is the ability for users to focus on the interactions and visual output of their code rather than in the implementation details of the Android platform.
Visualize This: How to Tell Stories with Data
by Maria Popova How to turn numbers into stories, or what pattern-recognition has to do with the evolution of journalism. Data visualization is a frequent fixation around here and, just recently, we looked at 7 essential books that explore the discipline’s capacity for creative storytelling. And in a culture of equally increasing infographics overload, where we are constantly bombarded with mediocre graphics that lack context and provide little actionable insight, Yau makes a special point of separating the signal from the noise and equipping you with the tools to not only create better data graphics but also be a more educated consumer and critic of the discipline. From asking the right questions to exploring data through the visual metaphors that make the most sense to seeing data in new ways and gleaning from it the stories that beg to be told, the book offers a brilliant blueprint to practical eloquence in this emerging visual language. Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr
FORM+CODE: Eye and Brain Candy for the Digital Age
by Maria Popova Computational aesthetics, or what typography has to do with Yoko Ono and Richard Dawkins. Yes, we’re on a data visualization spree this week, but today’s spotlight taps into an even more niche obsession: data viz book candy. This season, Princeton Architectural Press, curator of the smart and visually gripping, brings us FORM+CODE — an ambitious, in-depth look at the use of software across art, design and illustration for a wide spectrum of creative disciplines, from data visualization to generative art to motion typography. The nature of form in the digital age is trapped in the invisible realm of code. Elegant and eloquent, compelling yet digestible, the tome — dubbed “a guide to computational aesthetics” — offers a fine piece of eye-and-brain stimulation for the age of digital creativity. Thanks, Julia Brain Pickings has a free weekly newsletter and people say it’s cool. Share on Tumblr
Mapping European Stereotypes
By Maria Popova Geopolitical cartography is all about an objective view of the world’s political conventions. But there’s nothing politically correct in Bulgarian-born, London-based designer Yanko Tsvetkov‘s Mapping Stereotypes project — a series of amusing, often tragicomically true maps of Europe based on various subjective perceptions and ideologies. Tsvetkov’s maps are available for purchase as prints, mousepads and t-shirts on Zazzle.
