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Visualization resources

Thursday, 07 May 2009 11:33

Websites:

Visual complexity and Information Aesthetics - examples of interesting visualizations
The work of Jonathan Harris - examples of visualization to allow new ways to access information
Logic+Emotion - David Armano's blog with excellent examples of visual communication
Presentation Zen for communicating professionally (and visually)

Talks:

These TED talks, notably Hans Rosling showing the capabilities of GapMinder
Jonathan Harris at Pop!Tech, showing a number of his projects

Tools:

XMind - advanced mind mapping, offering a variety of map types
Graphviz - 'a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks'
Gapminder - for displaying and making sense of large data sets
The Mind Map Blog
The Mind Mapping Software Blog

Books:

Edward Tufte - a number of books on the principles and techniques of visualization
Back of the napkin - on 'solving problems and selling ideas with pictures'
Sketching user experiences - an excellent tome on design with a focus on sketching to explore ideas.
Drawing with the right side of the brain - a DIY course to enhance your drawing skills

Conferences / Community

VizThink

Consultants / Creators:

XPLANE - the visual thinking company
Jonathan Jarvis - interaction and media designer with work including The Crisis of Credit Visualized

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