Rob Simmon

@erlenstar @tmcw @pitaru If they ask nice I'll go down & give a presentation to new hires (& everyone else) at @MapBox

@SeeingStructure @briancragin @powerfulpoint @camoesjo @nigelhawtin @albertocairo another relevant article: http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2013/03/13/the-not-so-functional-art-putting-information-visualisation-back-into-context/ …

@SeeingStructure @briancragin @powerfulpoint @camoesjo @nigelhawtin @albertocairo What makes it art? It's (arguably) artistic, but art?

@briancragin @powerfulpoint @camoesjo @nigelhawtin @SeeingStructure @albertocairo There's *a lot* of, um, artistic license in the lights img

@briancragin @camoesjo @albertocairo @nigelhawtin It's lacking labels, but it could *potentially* reveal vacations, deadlines, illness, etc.

@camoesjo @briancragin @powerfulpoint @nigelhawtin @SeeingStructure @albertocairo Explanation vs. exploration? Passive vs. interactive?

"At what point does data become fictional?" Imagine Science Film Festival panel. Oct. 11 in NYC http://www.imaginesciencefilms.org/festival/2013-panels-conversations/ … via @manovich

@eruptionsblog I lost count of the number of times "supervolcano" was used at ~10 in this story about Mars http://touch.latimes.com/#story/la-sci-sn-first-supervolcano-mars-eden-olympus-mons-20131002/ …

I'm listening to @rushtheband's remixed Vapor Trails (which sounds great). It's a deeply weird album, even for Rush.

@Satdecrypter Ugh. Last time I tried it HEG was limited to nearest-neighbor interpolation.

"aerial photographs from great heights, even in color, are often quite misleading" —Eduard Imhof, Cartographic Relief Presentation, 1965

@vruba I think so, working home alone is getting boring (and it's only been a day).

@briancragin @nigelhawtin @albertocairo @camoesjo Or: dataviz is revelatory/exploratory, infographics are explanatory.

@briancragin @nigelhawtin @albertocairo @camoesjo I think this deserves a panel discussion. Maybe a Google Hangout?

@briancragin @nigelhawtin @albertocairo @camoesjo IMHO, dataviz should be as transparent as possible, infographics stress narrative.

@albertocairo @briancragin @camoesjo @nigelhawtin How do we disassociate the term infographic from the dross that's out there?

@briancragin @camoesjo @nigelhawtin @albertocairo Infographic has connotations of an illustrated Harper's Index, though. Use info. viz.?

.@camoesjo @nigelhawtin @briancragin @albertocairo FWIW I like "functionalist" and would happily include myself. Re: http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/infographics-data-visualization/ …