Sunday, August 24, 2008

More Fun Stuff for Visual Learners

Slate has an interesting slide show up about 'infoviz' (information visualization) art, or "art that uses information patterns as paint."

While none of the pieces they depict is specifically about libraries (siiiiiiigh...why isn't it all about me yet?), there are pharmaceutical and research tie-ins we can work with from a health information standpoint. Other pieces address relationships, chess-playing computers and the popularity of names, which are also entertaining subjects. 

The article refers the reader to a couple of other sites for more of this, including Visual Complexity, which I've previously encountered and liked on another blog, back in the mists of time when I was at university. (Nostalgic sigh.) The site is neatly divided into categories, including one for biology that includes a project to map the human "diseasome." Now that's health-library-tech-related!

The other recommended site, called information aesthetics, also has some nice images. The presentation there is not quite as conducive to browsing, to my mind, but there's still some interesting stuff.

Displaying information is pretty much a Subject of Interest for me, so I think this is very cool. Check it out!


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