By far the most popular session this morning is Live, Vast and Deep: Web-native Information Visualization. Tom Carden from Stamen Design and creator of amazing, data rich sites such as Oakland Crimespotting. Also mentioned during the talk were Every Block, a website for knowing everything about a city’s block. These guys are doing wonders with Flash, GPS, GIS and XML, pushing to the limit technologies like Invisible Ideas on which I worked several years ago. Eric also showed a vintage video featuring Microsoft Cinemania (circa 1998) to make the point that state of the art on the [...]
