more on that data vizion
Ok, so I’ve probly shown that this data visualisation stuff is fascinating to me. Working on my data visualisation project has got me to keep digging up stuff for inspiration and just to see what kind of things people are working on around the globe.
I find it is so large now that even big corportions are adopting data visualisations as part of their promotion/advertising campaigns. One of the notable ones I have found is Visa with their current ‘Go’ campaign. It draws on the same principles as the Flickr Time example I showed in a previous post. Quoting from Data Visualisation Is Reinventing Online Storytelling by Garrick Schmitt: The “Go” microsite features seemingly random bits of data (16,438 people in Paris smiling back at the Mona Lisa) that the user can explore to see how Visa is “helping more people go places and do things.” Similarly, the banner ads feature live video streamed from cities (such as Times Square in New York) around the world that show people “going” and utilizes similar data.
