Tag: ben-fry
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First Info Vis Crit
I haven’t talked much about my Information Visualization course with Ben Fry and Golan Levin. They are quite an amusing pair, a mix of design and art and nerdery. Today we had our first crit, which only involved select projects. Mine was not one of them. And thank goodness for that, because it was dreadful.…
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Ben Fry Talks Data Visualization
Ben Fry visited our design studio class again, this time to give a presentation instead of critiquing our work. He talked about the importance of being able to visualize complex data in order to gain a better understanding of what we’re talking about, for instance, when we say the human genome consists of approximately 35,000…
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Email Visualization
The purpose of this project was to create a self-portrait using data collected about myself over the course of a week and represent it visually. I started by tracking my communications, then narrowed my focus to three email accounts: personal; work; and school. Between the sketches and the final, there was a careful balance of…
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Data Poster Critiqued by Ben Fry
After depriving myself of sleep and taking a chance that my poster would work it??????s way through the print queue in time for class (we were told to allow 48 hours and I submitted my job at 2 a.m.), I gladly hung my poster on the wall with everyone else during grad studio this afternoon.…