Category Archives: Visualization

Narrative automation

Design, Visualization,

This one comes via the PhD. Design list, courtesy of Don Norman, Narrative Science, corporate style. Give us your big data and we will churn out a story for you, using Quill narrative automation software.

“While advances in data visualization and data science are helpful, they don’t take us the last mile. Data visualizations are often complex, requiring expert-level analysis and explanation. Quill immediately adds value to data by identifying the most relevant information and relaying it through professional, conversational language. The result? Intelligent narratives that efficiently communicate the insights buried in Big Data that people can comprehend, act on and trust.”

All available at Narrative Science…

Digital Matter and Intangible Heritage

Anthropology, Design, Visualization

Finally! The special double issue on Digital Matter and Intangible Heritage edited by Lily Díaz and Maurizio Forte and published in the International Journal of Digital Culture and Intangible Heritage (IJDCE) by Inderscience Publishers is online and with the printed version to follow shortly.(See post on August 3, 2007 for initial call for papers.)

The web pages of the journal, table of contents (ToC) for the issue as well as an introductory essay by the editors can be accessed here: IJDCE Special Issue: Digital Matter and Intangible Heritage.

The issue deals with questions such What is intangible heritage? What new developments does the digital dimension afford to the areas of Culture and Heritage? What new paradigms for interaction emerge from the combination of more traditional humanistic practices such as Archaeology, History, Museum Studies with the newly emerging digital practices?

It features contributions by leading experts in areas such as embodiment, user experience from an ecological perspective; virtual tourism, journey and destination in the virtual dimension; new notions of audience and economic models as well as the development of new practices.

The issue concludes with a showcase of works by students from the Media Lab Helsinki.

For more information please contact me.

Information Visualization & Design

Design, Visualization

This week I spent teaching a workshop at Media Lab Helsinki, on the topic of Information Visualization and Design (IVD). Among the topics covered were a basic introduction to the theory of graphics by Jacques Bertin. Two exercises were succesfully accomplished by the group comprising 14 hard working MA students. These were:

  1. Personal Timeline Chart. (See selected works here:infodescomp.pdf)
  2. Affective Map (For more information, press here: mapping.pdf.)
    What is the oil and water in your life?