Geoff McGhee Malofiej Infographics Workshop March 20, 2012 Infographics for a Post-Flash World
Geoff McGheeMalofiej Infographics WorkshopMarch 20, 2012
Infographics for a Post-Flash World
What Now?
“Members of a digitally savvy humanists argue it is time to stop looking for inspiration in the next political or philosophical "ism" and start exploring how technology is changing our understanding of the liberal arts.
The last frontier is about method, they say, using powerful technologies and vast stores of digitized materials that previous humanities scholars did not have.”
–The New York Times
http://www.stanford.edu/group/toolingup/rplviz/
Visualizing the Enlightenment
“Mapping the Republic of Letters,” Stanford University (2009)
republicofletters.stanford.edu
spatialhistory.stanford.edu
litlab.stanford.edu
ruralwest.stanford.edu/newspapers
New Technologies
NEW New Technologies
What’s Going On Here?
http://mbostock.github.com/d3
Data analysis and prototyping
Data PRE-visualization:Tableau
Tableau
Tableau
Tableau
Tableau
Tableau
Tableau
Tableau
Tableau
Tableau
Tableau
Tableau
Tableau
http://tableausoftware.com
Data DE-visualization?
Data DE-visualization?“Re-Vision”
“Re-Vision”
“Re-Vision”
“Re-Vision”
“Re-Vision”
Most interesting aspect of re-vision?
Most interesting aspect of re-vision?Getting the raw data from graphics online!
But what about animation?
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/
http://tumultco.com/hype/
What about maps?
Web Mapping: OpenLayers
Web Mapping: OpenLayers
http://openlayers.org
What about rich media?
http://mozillapopcorn.org
D3 for Interactive Charting
Tableau for Data Exploration
Edge for HTML5 Animation
Hype for HTML5 Animation
OpenLayers for Mapping
MapTiler for Creating Tiles
Popcorn for Rich Media
Tools for a Post-Flash WorldA Selection for Getting Started
http://mbostock.github.com/d3
http://tableausoftware.com
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/
http://tumultco.com/hype/
http://openlayers.org
http://maptiler.org
http://mozillapopcorn.org
Thanks!
[email protected]: @mcgeoff