At the recent UK Visual Analytics Summer School (VASS) at Middlesex University, Simon Buckingham Shum gave a presentation on several various aspects of visualization, and managed to post most of the content on his website.
I drew on the pioneering work of two people in my talk, Bob Horn and Tim van Gelder: Bob Horn from Stanford, developer of the Turing Test Great Debate Maps, was actually able to join the event on Friday thanks to fortuitous travel to UK, and it was great to see him present some of the latest work he has been doing with his large scale information murals visually synthesising outcomes of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development backcast analysis to a sustainable 2050 as a Pathway Mural:
