Ben Fry’s new book Visualizing Data is an introduction to applied visualization that should appeal to a wide audience. Designers, software engineers, and anyone curious about how to represent data with pictures will find it to be a good introduction to visualization techniques. Although the examples use Processing, a Java-based toolkit that Fry [...] Read More…
The engineering director at my last workplace used to hold weekly "iteration reviews" with his teams, which was really just a fancy title for a meeting to communicate what you've discovered during the past week. Building software is a lot about making discoveries but the same could really be said about any creative process, [...] Read More…
I recently came across Mike Rohde's fantastic sketchnotes from South by Southwest in Austin. Instead of typing notes on a laptop or hen-scratching on a notepad like typical conference-goers, Rohde makes brilliantly illustrated notes in his Moleskine sketchbook and conveniently makes them available on Flickr under a Creative Commons license. A pair of "visual cartographers" [...] Read More…
In my blog’s new spirit of academic openness, I’ve decided to post some details about a project I did for a human-computer interaction course last term. The work is admittedly rough and much work would need to be done to pursue it further, but I think the idea is interesting and I’d love it [...] Read More…