{"id":4,"date":"2009-03-26T20:42:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statisticalgraphics.blog.com\/4763327\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T20:42:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:42:42","slug":"the-art-of-infovis-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/the-art-of-infovis-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of InfoVis Presentation &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently stumbled over the <a href=\"http:\/\/synoptic.weaintplastic.com\/\">&#8220;Synoptic&#8221;<\/a> project. It is a nice animated visualization of weather data &#8211; not particularly unique, but aesthetically well done.<\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div>I don&#8217;t have to argue about the lack of any generality regarding data analysis tasks here &#8230;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>What caught my attention is the overall &#8220;staging&#8221; of the presentation. When you compare the &#8220;Synoptic&#8221; page with the (somewhat famous) <a href=\"http:\/\/vis.berkeley.edu\/papers\/prefuse\/prefuse.wmv\">demo movie<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/prefuse.org\/\">prefuse<\/a>, you will pretty soon understand what I mean.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/prefuse.org\/doc\/manual\/introduction\/example\/example_app.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>As a statistician &#8211; who grew up in an academic environment built up by math people &#8211; I can at least learn the marketing lessons here &#8230;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>(Make sure to have your sound turned on, otherwise you will miss the point)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently stumbled over the &#8220;Synoptic&#8221; project. It is a nice animated visualization of weather data &#8211; not particularly unique, but aesthetically well done. I don&#8217;t have to argue about the lack of any generality regarding data analysis tasks here &#8230; What caught my attention is the overall &#8220;staging&#8221; of the presentation. When you compare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}