Eric Rodenbeck, (Stamen Design) - Next Generation Visualisations
Posted by rmp at 00:18 5th Oct 2007
Eric takes us through a heavily visual applications developed by Stamen in the last few years. All aim to map detailed data spaces that's to say structures which are too complicated for lists.
Eric and by extension Stamen see data visualisation as a medium. The data is mostly live, but when it's not it's either vast or deep.
Example: http://cabspotting.org/ showing something that's live contrasted with something that's historical. Cabspotting's animation of circulatory systems really set me thinking about how this sort of visualisation could be applied to biotech, PP interactions, gene ontologies, citations and real biophysical systems.
Example: Oakland crime: notice and explore interpretation of patterns. Built with {modest maps} framework ref: http://modestmaps.com/
Example: Digg labs: Swarm, Stack, Digg Spy, Ark. "Ambient engagement".
Example: Twitter blocks: 3-dimensional message space
Example: Real Estate flow: Trelia (sp?)
Be open to the process of exploration - start with the data, not preconceived views of what it should look like.
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I loved the question from AbilityNet about whether Eric had thought about accessibility for these apps. It had him completely stumped and I have to admit adding serious accessibility to these apps, whilst being extremely cool would also be extremely difficult.
I'd have liked to see something more immersive and with a biotech or medical twist. I wish I'd had the chance to hook up with Eric to discuss efforts in this sort of sphere.
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