Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization

A super-short 5 minute talk from TargetPoint’s Director of Research Alex Lundy is now online, where he discusses a wide variety of topics relevant to those of us working in infographics and visualization.

A great, short talk by TargetPoint’s VP and Director of Research, Alex Lundry, at DC Ignite. He addresses the issues of subjective messaging through visualization, the emergence of open data, some ideal data visualization tools, a set of quick lessons in graphic literacy, and a short list of recommended visualization books, all within the time span of 5 minutes.

I’ve embed’ed the video after the break.

via Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization – information aesthetics.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .