Jeffrey Veen’s presentation on designing for big data. A quick peek into the history of data visualization, how we’re changing from consumers into participants, and how technology has allowed huge amounts of information to be recorded, stored, and analyzed. Personally, I’m just starting to get my feet wet with processing.org and will need to setup some sort of venue to display my experiments.
Category: links
Stealing the Mona Lisa
A recent Vanity Fair article on the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 indicates that it may have been part of a larger scam to sell forgeries to unsuspecting buyers.
The Trajan Inscription
A good scanned photo of the Trajan Inscription. It’s covered up in scaffolding and hasn’t been able to visible in years.
Art vs Money
Making money, the art of James Boggs and the value of art versus money.
Slow motion showreel
Showreel for the SprintCam v3 featuring cheerleaders, firebreathers and jello at 1000fps.
Short typography movies
Algorithm visualization
Visualizations of various sorting algorithms, cool stuff. The original program was written in python, it’s also available using canvas.
Google maps typography
Google maps typography. Rhett Dashwood culled a series of satellite images from the state of Victoria that resemble letterforms.
Infographic history of beer
Comic Sans documentary
A short student documentary about Comic Sans that Marc mentioned after my previous post.