Ted Talk (2010), by David McCandless
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization (Links to an external site.) – (18:10 min)
David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world.
To realize how the overload of information and the lack of transparency is a problem arising every, and as designers, we have the visual responsibility to improve the intake of live and accurate data. Also to be aware of how with data we can find patterns and relationships. Connecting past data with present data on a visual graph has the possibility to create a landscape of information and communicate huge amounts of data to the spectator on just a graphic.
I learned that it actually makes sense why “data is the new soil”, Is as if visual data is the combination of data, numbers, and graph, exposed through a creative medium. It was very interesting how data can gather amounts of information we cannot imagine, and how to visualizing the information and making it interactive, can be much easier and faster to absorb and comprehend.
