Ways of Seeing

Noah and I wrote this piece for the new issue of Contagious about visualisations.

It's called Ways of Seeing [this is a reference to an awesome book that my mate Paul lent me that I never gave back called Ways of Seeing. It came out in 1972, was based on a BBC television series of the same name and is amazing:  a discourse about the the inherent ideologies embedded in visual imagery.]

In the piece we look at a bunch of interesting data visualisations and quote a blog post by Ed Cotton:

in a data driven world, infographics are the new art

and go on to suggest that visualisations are only going to become more prevalent and interesting as more and more data and metadata is generated by every digital interaction:

In a world increasingly saturated with data, we will all need to develop new ways of seeing.

You can download the whole thing here.

Comments

[charlie gower]

couldn't agree more.
loving info graphics.
Some great stuff coming out at the minute too.

[Rob Mortimer]

Great stuff, tthanks for that.

[Natasja Giezen]

Thanks for that, loving infographics too at the mo'. And thanks for the reminder to finally finish the second half of 'Ways of Seeing' which has been languishing for too long unread on my bedside table.

[dan burgess]

hello mate
interesting
been thinking about the whole personal carbon emission thing and how visualisation will need to play a big part in getting people to see the result of their dirty habits and that..
nice one

[Mark Earls]

Hey Dude.

Great piece btw. Looking forward to the day in July and what you've got to say.

Looks like we're going to be unpopular...lots of Influentials kind of models on show. Don't go falling into that trap, please...

Beer after?

M

[Mark Earls]

Hey Dude.

Great piece btw. Looking forward to the day in July and what you've got to say.

Looks like we're going to be unpopular...lots of Influentials kind of models on show. Don't go falling into that trap, please...

Beer after?

M

[Faris]

hey chief

don't worry - i have no love for influentials ;)

beer after sounds good.

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[Faris]

o dan - reality mining is a defo. personal data visualisation.

http://reality.media.mit.edu/

fxx

[Karl Turley]

Love this idea it is great. There is so much out there that is unexplored and just waiting for someone to make some interesting and insightful visualizations and correlations. We have plenty of content, we don't need much more, we should concentrate on focusing what we do have into something interesting.

We have explored the outreaches of the planet, maybe now it is time to explore all of the data we left behind whilst doing this, before we move on to the next new adventure.