The State of Information Visualization, 2012

Robert Kosara has posted his annual “State of Information Visualization” report, covering the rising and falling trends of 2012.

Data journalism keeps getting attention in visualization. There was another workshop at VisWeek on storytelling, as well as two papers on the topic (more on those in a future posting). The academic community is still mostly concerned with data analysis rather than communication, though there is clearly interest. But the world out there is not waiting. The Guardian datablog is collecting and releasing data every day, and more and more stories are now based on numbers and use some form of visualization. It’s easy to complain about the bad ones, but we also need to come up with ideas how to tell stories around data in a constructive way.

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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 .