Data doesn't have to be boring. Above is a collection of images from Visual Complexity with links to 460 projects. Also, Mashable has a nice review of 16 data visualization tools (some of which I hadn't see before). You may have seen Hans Roslings speech at the TED conference where he enthusiastically demonstrated Gapminder’s Trendalyzer software. Google recently bought Trendalyzer and has a live test site here (it's fun to play with). Of course Swivel is cool too.
What if someone translated all the major hits like Blink and Freakonomics into visual concepts like Hugh Macleod does with his busines cards? Like what you said about flash cards as bullet-point summaries of key concepts, but spoken with visuals. I dunno. Maybe I can try to sketch out a few examples.
Posted by: Joe Leary | May 21, 2007 at 12:01 AM