Wow so much going on with the visualization of data these days. With new semantic protocols coupled with archive API’s and real-time data sets being set free by their respective owners, there is an incomprehensible set of numbers being generated and parsed every second… and we are only at it’s infancy.
Some nice stuff out there from the BBC and Aaron Koblin from google and one of my own sf neighbor’s Stamen.
As we become dwarfed by the sheer numbers of our lives, data visualization will be the only way much smarter machines (who can run and understand the numbers) will translate meaning and emotion to our increasingly puny human brains.
Now I’m not an evangelist for the Singularity like a Ray Kurzweil but I can see the writing on the wall with how technology will influence culture. In the process of controlling these numbers through apps and services we will also be entering a new age of art between data and design.
