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Data, Mapping & Visualization



Information Visualization is becoming a critical method by which to make sense of large amounts of data. Katy Börner, Scientists seek 'Map of Science', BBC

For the process of Organic Information Design, the goal is for a single person to be able to act as designer and programmer. Ben Fry, Medialab thesis

Some Areas of Research


  

Library Information Science
Information Design
Geography - Sara Fabrikant
Medicine
Scientific Reseach - Centre for Bio-Image Informatics
Art & Design
Architecture (Spatializing data)
Mapping of Data

   Consists of three stages: Data Collection, Data Organization and Data Visualization
Data Collection Understanding USA, Richard Saul Wurman
Human Genome Project
Data Analysis, (Indiana University)
Conversation Map, Warren Sack
Data Organization
   Information Visualization (Indiana University)
Visual Thesaurus (Plump Design)
Kohonen Map Algorithm, Natural Language, Honkela
Data Visualization

 Visual Display of Quantitative Infromation, Edward Tufte
Atlas of Cyberspace, Dodge & Kitchin
Smart Money, Martin Wattenberg
Textarc, W. Bradford Paley
Genomic Cartography, Information Design, Ben Fry projects
Interaction Visualization of Large Graphs, Tamara Munzner
Cyberspace Geography Visualization, Luc Girardin
Artistic Projects
   Poetry machine, David Link
Trace Encounters, W. Bradford Paley
1:1 (2) Lisa Jevbratt

Data Spatialization
(Visualization as Design)		   3D Information Design, Robert Krawszyk, IIT
Asymptote
Greg Lynn
Karl Chu
Kostas Terzidis
Nox

Articles

 Database Aesthetics, Issues of Organization, Sharon Daniel