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Global Carbon Footprint by Nation | Sustainable Cities Collective.

AN: full infographic provides the list of Nations….a visual comparison of the carbon footprint is informative in a relative sense and impactful.

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As told by Jen Christiansen :

“As an attendee at the inaugural VISUALIZED conference last week in New York City, I was ready to experience, as the website described, “an inspiring two-day gathering with the brightest minds and social innovators from around the world who are changing how we understand and interact with data; and gain insight into designing data-driven narratives that connect with audiences and visualize the human experience.”

The event certainly delivered on that promise. With a rapid-fire lineup of 32 speakers over two days, things skewed interestingly—but perhaps not surprisingly—towards the experimental. Or perhaps those are the presentations that made the biggest impact on me among several days of maps, network diagrams, dynamic charts and bubble diagrams.

On second thought, I should use the word “experiential” instead of “experimental.” It’s a term that came up many times as the presenters emphasized a need to engage with the audience in order to inform them. Cartogram wall sculptures as prompts for storytelling, generative sound sculptures, personalized place-based network jewelry, and sound from scribbles certainly engaged me. But I’m not sure how much they informed me. I can’t deny that these more abstract examples of data visualization do tell stories—as does art, poetry, dance, and music. Inspirational? Most definitely. But several steps away from data journalism, and outside of my world as the art director of information graphics at Scientific American. And yet these are the examples I’m compelled to share.

Other themes and examples were more directly connected to the sort of work I do every day. Presenter after presenter spoke of the need for context. Simon Rogers, data journalist and editor at the Guardian, summarized that need succinctly: “Numbers without context are just numbers.” And as Amber Case, cyborg anthropologist and the founder of Geoloqi, and others emphasized, it’s our job to make the invisible visible.”

AN : Jen Christiansen blogs for Scientific American here re a recent                ” Visualization ” conference in NYC. Grappling with numbers and data is made easier through visual means including infographics but we are reminded that context and analytics of data are not precluded by the mere exercise of visualization. What we need in all of this  demystifying of the murkiness is to ” make the invisible visible ” ! I am reminded of the Biblical scriptural refernce in Proverbs ch.4 : 7 “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting get understanding. ” . We should not just gather information and then portray it…we need also to realize its implications , interpertations and its power to and for us.

via Storytelling with Big Data: Thoughts on VISUALIZED | @ScientificAmerican, Scientific American Blog Network.

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“Infographics are quite popular when it comes to viral content. People love to share visual media, and infographics are the best of both worlds: visual content and information. Infographics aren’t easy, however, and many people fail to create ones that really succeed. Here are six characteristics of a great infographic.”   ……

via Six Characteristics Of A Great Infographic | TechWench.com.

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Novel and innovative way of tangentially describing components of a movie.

“Whats the difference between Crank 2: High Voltage and Rushmore? Depends who you ask, and theres no accounting for taste. I love both, for what its worth. But what if there were a way to quantify the pure cinematic DNA of any film–using signals such as shot length, amount of camera movement, color palette, and more–and distill it all into a visual “fingerprint” that can be taken in at a glance, and compared instantly with any other film?”

 

via Infographic Of The Day: Taking The “Visual Fingerprints” Of Famous Films | Co. Design.