The Learning Curve becomes a Pyramid

Re-Posting from InformationIsBeautiful.net

Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom?: "

Just a think-piece really.


(I was recently visiting the office of the awesome design website Swiss Miss. Over snacks, they asked me to christen their “lunch guest wall” with a scribble. Caught in the headlights and feeling the pressure to be clever and impressive, my mind, of course, went blank. Spotless white. All I had was a noodle in my notepad about the increasing organisational structure of information and how it might relate to visualization. It had been a *long* flight to NY.)

I got kinda stuck with it. So I wanted to open it up and see what you thought.

This is by no means original thought. This structure has been around for a while. (In fact does anyone knows who first came up with it?). The only new thing is relating it to visuals. And giving it a nice font.

One interesting thing. If you visualise information without designing it, you often end up with a mush or a meaningless thicket. So if you can only really ‘design’ information, rather than visualize it, then maybe the term ‘information visualization’ is a bit of a misnomer?

Anyway, how does it look to you? Does it seem logical? Truthful? Do the definitions ring true? What could be the word for the visual depiction of wisdom? Does greater verticality imply greater meaning? Or can errors creep in?"

The Joy Of Stats

Came across this on my Google Reader, and I was impressed. Keep up the good work!

The Joy Of Stats:

Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before – using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/comingup/the-joy-of-stats/The Joy Of Stats

Quote of the week

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Turf Dancing in the Rain

Feel bad about yourself as a hockey player now

When I was home I was able to play hockey with Papa G twice ---- twice!  I felt like a million bucks out there, so much so that I started daydreaming about pursuing some sort of minor league hockey play.  It wasn't about money or fame.  It was about passion.

I felt incredible for those 2 days of playing hockey.  My life started to turnaround.  Then I saw this video about Syd Crosby.

I officially suck. hard.

Stand By Me

Sound Engineer mixes series of street performers from around the world — recorded, overlayed & mixed with one another while singing the song “Stand By Me”.  The finished product could be top 40 hit:



Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around The World from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

Be well, do good.

BG

Canada Goose Tactical Line

Canada Goose Tactical Line

Gobble Gobble

On Melancholy Hill - NYC Lights from Chateau Bezerra on Vimeo.

Brick or Bone?

Design has taken over my life. Having a plan is one thing. Sticking to it is another.

Autumn Style

As I transition my wardrobe and mentality to Autumn, I can't help but reflect on the first Fall I had in NYC back in 2006.

I vividly remember being confused about the different types of sweaters, fabrics, coats and accessories needed for the weather change. Not too familiar with blends of wool that I can catalog by geography, alphabetically or by price, I once thought that Lambs' Wool was something called "William's Wool" --- one of my best friend's favorite Galgayisms. 

Fascinated by the golden and rust colored leaves of the trees in Central Park, I walked around for hours open to do anything as so much to keep me outside.  This pursuit resulted in reading the Economist on park benches. That scout badge of being a New Yorker was finally earned; I can sit in a city park next to the crazy pigeon lady and the wannabe gangster tweens sneaking out to smoke.

This weekend I found myself in the same habit.  The weather was perfect and I never wanted to get indoors.  Regretfully I did spend more time than I hoped indoors, but only limited to swapping out my spring/summer for fall/winter clothes.  As I took my inventory of sweaters, I couldn't help but laugh again at William's Wool. Now I'm looking at adding a few more sweaters like the ones here.

LLBean Norwegian
LLBean Irish Cableknit
LLBean Norwegian Stripe
Steven Alan Naval L/S

Looking back again to my "newness" to the Northern climate, I even asked one of the Senior VPs what men wear for shoes when it snows outside.  He incredulously answered "loafers".  1) I failed to look at his shoes before asking 2) now, I know that most men just wear older dress shoes, some wear in other shoes like boots to swap out for loafers in the office, and only a select few men wear rubber slip-overs.

It's great to feel this excitement again.  And not just limited to the weather.

Be Well, Do Good.

BG

Amazing photo from Sartorialist.com

 Classic Style on this little guy; must be related to the Galgays somehow

Live to Tell the Tale

So I have been featuring different quotes week after week, but I have yet to list lyrics.  Today that changes:

"Whatever happens to me

I hope that I'll fall asleep

Knowing that you'll always be

The story with no ending

The whole slew blossomed beautifully

And I was beside myself

So I gave into your love

As you rapturously commanded

And this is like I have always dreamed:

Cobblestone and dusty feet

That's the way it should always be

Head over heels and deftly

Wonderful and healthy"

- Live to Tell the Tale by Passion Pit