Geoff McGheeMalofiej Infographics WorkshopMarch 20, 2012

Infographics for a Post-Flash World

What Now?

“Members of a digitally savvy humanists argue it is time to stop looking for inspiration in the next political or philosophical "ism" and start exploring how technology is changing our understanding of the liberal arts.

The last frontier is about method, they say, using powerful technologies and vast stores of digitized materials that previous humanities scholars did not have.”

–The New York Times

http://www.stanford.edu/group/toolingup/rplviz/

Visualizing the Enlightenment

“Mapping the Republic of Letters,” Stanford University (2009)

republicofletters.stanford.edu

spatialhistory.stanford.edu

litlab.stanford.edu

ruralwest.stanford.edu/newspapers

New Technologies

NEW New Technologies

What’s Going On Here?

http://mbostock.github.com/d3

Data analysis and prototyping

Data PRE-visualization:Tableau

Tableau

Tableau

Tableau

Tableau

Tableau

Tableau

Tableau

Tableau

Tableau

Tableau

Tableau

Tableau

http://tableausoftware.com

Data DE-visualization?

Data DE-visualization?“Re-Vision”

“Re-Vision”

“Re-Vision”

“Re-Vision”

“Re-Vision”

Most interesting aspect of re-vision?

Most interesting aspect of re-vision?Getting the raw data from graphics online!

But what about animation?

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/

http://tumultco.com/hype/

What about maps?

Web Mapping: OpenLayers

Web Mapping: OpenLayers

http://openlayers.org

What about rich media?

http://mozillapopcorn.org

D3 for Interactive Charting

Tableau for Data Exploration

Edge for HTML5 Animation

Hype for HTML5 Animation

OpenLayers for Mapping

MapTiler for Creating Tiles

Popcorn for Rich Media

Tools for a Post-Flash WorldA Selection for Getting Started

http://mbostock.github.com/d3

http://tableausoftware.com

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/

http://tumultco.com/hype/

http://openlayers.org

http://maptiler.org

http://mozillapopcorn.org

Thanks!

gmcghee@stanford.eduTwitter: @mcgeoff