Ben Fry Interview
April 2, 2008
Ben gives a short interview discussing a little about his background, Processing, Hollywood interfaces, and more updates coming to his website (which just launched a re-design last month).
First Impressions Of Visualizing Data
January 21, 2008
I finally received my copy of Ben Fry’s Visualizing Data in the mail. I have read through several chapters now and am really liking the book so far. Fry takes the concepts he originally introduced in his Ph.d. dissertation, Computational Information Design, and expands on how to actually implement the concepts of: acquire, parse, filter, mine, represent, refine, and interact. Examples are ones you’re sure to be familiar with if you have been following Fry’s work but he offers links to the source code and data sets so you can really begin to explore on your own. This is a beginner-intermediate book and is a great next step from Processing, which came out last year.