No doubt that information visualization has become insanely popular in the last few years. Driven by the spread of open data and web-based technologies to bring it to the masses, it’s cropping up in the unlikeliest of places. Jennifer Bove of Creativity Online sits down with two experts in the field, Stamen Design’s Tom Carden and Dopplr.com’s Boris Anthony, to talk about it.
Consider this: we’ve gone from custom-made illustrations drawn with ink on paper to single-purpose computer programs that could only handle a specific set of data and present it one way, to now entire frameworks that allow someone who is not necessarily a professional to make any kind of visual representation out of any kind of data set.
