Data Visualization: Designing Understandable Data for All

FluxFun has the first part of a 2-part writeup on data visualization of court data.  I know, not the most exciting stuff, but an area with tons of data (Judges, lawyers, outcomes, etc) all in public form, but with no good way to trudge through it all.

As the cliché goes, data is king, but information is power. In a democracy, transparency is a requirement to good governance. Transparency is measured against the amount of useful, relevant, and timely information provided to the people. I believe that through Larc’s taxonomies and other derivative information provided by data visualization makes as better as a nation, and as a people.

via Data Visualization: Designing Understandable Data for You, Me, and Everybody | FluxFun Enterprises.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.