Aaron Koblin, famous for his work with Flight Patterns and other interactive visualizations, has a great presentation at TED where he discusses the many ways you can introduce the human element into visualizations.
Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data — and at times vast numbers of people — and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the “Wilderness Downtown” video that customizes for the user, his works brilliantly explore how modern technology can make us more human.
eTapes has a video interview with Aaron Koblin available on their website. In it he talks about his education, how he got involved in data visualization, and his hopes for future projects.
While it’s a Vimeo video, they’ve disabled embed’ing meaning you have to go to their site to view it.
Aaron Koblin recently gave a lecture at the 2009 OFFF in Lisbon.
While it was a theme that seemed to be running through the OFF conference this wasn’t what he was going to talk about. He said while it’s important to be aware of the extreme abundance of data it’s ironic that his job is to use it. With the vast volume of data he argued that we can make insights that we never could have seen before. He said:
“Data tells stories about our lives.”
PFSK has gathered videos of the various visualizations he discussed, and transcribed most of his talk online.
Aaron Koblin, famous for his work with Flight Patterns and other interactive visualizations, has a great presentation at TED where he discusses the many ways you can introduce the human element into visualizations.
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