Data visualization talks worth watching

I pride myself on publishing mostly original content in this blog. The web is plagued by information regurgitation (something that’s more fun to pronounce than to imagine). Today however, I feel compelled to share a few links regarding data visualization.

Here are three TED-talks on the subject (ted.com, bookmark it now). Each talk is about 20 minutes, but are all worth watching.

His blog is at http://www.informationisbeautiful.net. It’s also in my bookmarks folder.

 

About visual data and NUI (kind of)

 

A combination of the two above. Medical data re-visualized.

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