Powerful data visualizations are like masterful paintings– through art and insight, they intimate broad ideas and usher in understanding.
I, however, am neither a master painter nor an expert data visualizer. Neither are many of my contemporaries in the “technically skilled and socially aware” demographic. Still, I believe that even mediocre pieces of art or analysis [...]
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Certain elements in cinema tend to occur in clusters. I’m talking about groups of tropes that stick together and recur in different films with only minor alterations. Stereotypical characters, repetitive martial arts attack patterns, overwraught exclamations and pithy wisecracks. The big, quiet, intimidating guy who turns out to be clever/nice in the end, the post-slash [...]
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I bet you can learn a lot about a company by taking a look and how, when, and how much they pay their employees. Naturally, to get the most out of this theoretical analysis, the data should be correlated with publicly accessible or easily determinable individual information like employee positions, job title progressions, and larger [...]
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Proto-lewd punnery and double-entendre overheard at a party:
The difference between a straight man and a gay man is a six pack…
Followed by:
Makes sense. He’s more beer-curious than bi-curious.
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Posted in Art, Computing, General, Science-ish, tagged bio-electronica, genes, genetic, information audioization, Music, science techno on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I enjoy artistic experiences that communicate some expression of meaningful information.
Maybe this is inherent to all analysis-junkies and artists. Pretty graphs that explain complex data sets. Poignant songs that sum up intricate social and political circumstances. Equations that encompass beautiful realities. Etceteras, etceteras.
In that vein, what could be more meaningful than the blueprints of life, [...]
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