Artfully visualizing our humanity: Aaron Koblin's TEDTalk

In March 2011, Aaron Koblin, Creative Director of Google’s Data Arts team, gave a good TEDTalk presentation, Artfully Visualizing our Humanity, looking at a number of his visualization projects, and how visualizing data is becoming our interface to large datasets.

Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data — and at times vast numbers of people — and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the “Wilderness Downtown” video that customizes for the user, his works brilliantly explore how modern technology can make us more human.

Found on FlowingData.com and Infosthetics.com

The video is now also available on YouTube:

Comments

[Iris]

Pretty neat! I love the sheep drawings. I really cracked up when I saw someone ask, "Why are you doing this?" LOL I wish I could've been a part of that one.

[tkitek]

Whar year are you bud from ?

[sleeper sofas]

Keep working and great job on the posts, I will come back again and check your feed out soon.

[Joe]

Is it grown up Justin Bieber?