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Visualizing information
While vacationing last week Leslie and I paid a visit to New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Boy, even on a rainy Tuesday morning it was crowded, but we saw some good stuff. The Design and the Elastic Mind has some interesting data visualizations. In the image pictured here they are showing internet traffic statistics on a globe. There was another interesting one that took the text to Alice in Wonderland and represented word frequency and proximity. Both interesting ideas, but I’m not sure how revealing they are towards better understanding those data sets. But its certainly worth trying — with so much data flying around these days I think visual representations offer the best route towards understanding and interpreting the world around us.
