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TED: David McCandless and ‘The beauty of data visualization’

Some amazing examples of visualised data sets - mixtures of words and images - conceived to fast track data to the brain.

Author: Ben Hutchins 24/8/2008

David McCandless gives an inspiring talk about visualizing data sets from worldwide military spending to Facebook status updates.

In this talk David emphasizes how – with the combination of both words and images – these data sets enable vast amounts of complex data to be fast-tracked to our brain.

I particularly like the part where he mentions how – as a species – we’re becoming both hungrier and better at seeking and digesting statistical information and how good design plays a crucial role in ordering this ocean of knowledge.

The beauty of data visualization