Doug McCune
Session
Data Visualization Will Change Your Life
It's estimated that in 2010 we will have produced 988 exabytes of digital data.
In English units that's known as a "metric shit-ton." Our entire lives are being captured and stored away, streamed out instantly to the entire world on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, etc.
Every crime in your city, every gene in your DNA, every picture taken, video filmed, moment experienced... all of it captured digitally. But how the hell are we supposed to make any sense out of all this data?
We'll dive into the thing that ties it all together: data visualization.
This session will explore a brief history of data viz and we'll jump into a few new examples I've been playing with, from serious business like crime representation to silliness like hooking myself up to sensors to track arousal.
In the end I hope you walk away believing, as I do, that the work we do representing data is some of the most important work of our generation.