- -: David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
August 23, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may ...
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- -: Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity
November 12, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Ecologist Eric Berlow doesn't feel overwhelmed when faced with complex systems. He knows that more information can lead to a better, simpler solution. Illustrating the tips and tricks for breaking down big issues, he distills an overwhelming infographic on U.S. strategy in Afgh...
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- -: Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion
January 21, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information and determine what's useful? At TEDxGöteborg, scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman shows us sophisticated new tools -...
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- -: Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity
May 23, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data -- and at times vast numbers of people -- and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to ...
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- -: Nick Felton: Tracing Our Lives
February 23, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Graphic designer Nicholas Felton is obsessed with data. He knows how many songs hes listened to and how much it costs him per mile to fly. Felton visualizes these numerous details in personal Annual Reports. At PopTech 2009, Felton examines what a weeklong-snapshot of New York Times front pages r...
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- -: Nick Bilton: Smart Content
March 5, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Nick Bilton, Lead Technology Reporter for The New York Times Bits blog, says that digital media has resulted in a "new form of storytelling." Bilton, who is also a designer and user interface specialist, is co-founder of NYC Resistor, a hacker collective in Brooklyn, and is currently writing a bo...
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- -: Laura Kurgan: Human Geographies
March 15, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Architect Laura Kurgan is the Co-Director of the Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University. Kurgan visualizes complex political and social data to advocate for social reform. One project, Million Dollar Blocks, shows how the government spends more than one million dollars to incarcera...
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- -: Assaf Biderman: Sentient Cities
April 28, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Assaf Biderman is the Associate Director of the SENSEable City Laboratory, an MIT university research group that explores the real-time city by studying how distributed technologies can be used to improve our understanding of cities and create a more sustainable ways of interacting in urban envir...
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- -: Patrick Meier: Crowdsourcing Change
June 14, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Patrick Meier, director of Crisis Mapping for Ushahidi, shares how the collaborative mapping platform has been used as a tool for citizens and organizations to quickly respond to emergencies. At the PopTech Chicago Salon 2010, Meier describes how Ushahidi's grassroots response to the Haitian eart...
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