The ability to collect and store data continues to increase, but our ability to understand it remains unchanged. Data visualization makes use of our evolutionary proclivity for decoding visual images and employs this ability as a high-bandwidth means of getting data into our heads. In this talk, Ben Fry presents work  he have developed ranging from illustrations of data for magazines and journals to software tools used by geneticists to interactive applications for Fortune 10 companies.

From YouTube UX Week 2010

Geoff McGhee has been producer at nytimes.com, head of multimedia at Le Monde and now John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. These years at San Francisco are being productive, as we can see on this fantastic documentary about data visualization on the media.

Journalism in the Age of Data from Geoff McGhee on Vimeo.

My recommendation is that you visit the original site to watch the movie in an interactive way.

By “Inforgraphics news”

TED Talk by David McCandless, from informationisbeautiful.
Maybe nothing new for us, dedicated to this, but a very clear way of explaining the power of datavis.

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Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow’s computers will be controlled?

From the Web2.0 Expo, a talk from Jeff Veen entitled “Designing for Big Data” shows his philosophy behind creating visualizations that allow users to “tell their own story” from data.  It’s a great 20-minute presentation, check it out after the break.

In 2010 Tim Berners-Lee returned to TED to follow up his great speech about open and linked data from 2009. At this years conference Sir Berners-Lee presented some of the results that sprouted from open data.

As usual Tims presentation is very passionate about the subject and he shares his vision of the future of the web in an understandable manner. If you haven’t already seen the videos of the presentation I recommend doing so.

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The slides of the presentation are available here.

Via +Datavisualization.ch