Paola Antonelli Interviewed By Charlie Rose

A little bit late in posting this as Design And The Elastic Mind is not on display anymore, but here is an interview with Paola Antonelli (curator at New York’s MoMA) discussing her thoughts on the intersection of art and science and some history leading to the creation of the exhibition.

First Impressions Of Visualizing Data

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.