The beauty of data visualization | David McCandless

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www.ted.com David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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@debbydoodler33 10 лет назад

A very thought-provoking talk that fits nicely with my current courses on problem-solving through comm tech and philosophy of tech in education. McCandless' discussion on visualization and on 'data as the new soil' reminded me a lot of Marshall McLuhan's notions of how the literate culture (the age of writing) is dominated by the eye (also reinforced by the coloured visualization of 9:20) and of his concepts of 'rootedness' and the need to examine the soil from which we are growing as human beings (i.e., how has technology changed the soil makeup? how does that affect our senses and ways of understanding?). I agree that I, too, find myself longing for large chunks of written text to be converted (compressed) into an image/diagram and am relieved when this happens. I think this longing goes hand-in-hand with the speediness of vision.

@mariafatimadeoliveiraolive6449 Год назад

Apresentação maravilhosa, fiquei apaixonada pelo designer de informações. Uma ferramenta importante para a gestão de negócios. Parabéns.

@user-zp6pt5ye2y 6 лет назад

I think TED is the most fun and can know very amazing interesting informations if we see and watch during left over times. This video was so inspire me by using data in many ways~!

@kbjo94 11 лет назад

Great video!! exquisite craftsmanship,stunning design,and unparalleled quality,will never be obsolete!!

@GeroSchmidt68 10 лет назад

Great talk about how to turn complex data sets into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out hidden patterns and connections and even may change the way we see the world. It also provides some interesting real world examples with some unexpected insights.

@bdcp 13 лет назад

great rolex ad! the data from the commercial is beautiful

@ImDrizzt 14 лет назад

Excellent stuff, really gets you thinking.

@GeracaodeValor 13 лет назад

GOOD!

@edmundo200 10 лет назад

Very enlightening.

@GalaxyT25 10 лет назад

This talk would have made my exclusive favorites list a number of different ways. His closing remarks alone bring a new kind of stunning realization about global warming and (more specifically) carbon emissions... The Iceland volcano put out less than we do every day with airline flights alone. Shocking.

@ShallowBeThyGames 14 лет назад

That's a brilliant design. It's so obvious that you have to wonder why it's not been in use for years. It would be great if there was a search engine which collated all the information and shown it as a graphic comparison.

@psalib89 14 лет назад

that rolex ad is class

@moeezS 9 лет назад

6:19 Peak times for break ups. Makes sense.

@AlasdairBoyd1 11 лет назад

Does anyone know what the name of the first graph he shows is? The one with the rectangles of relative size based on data values? I'm trying to find a already built mechanism for graphing my data in this way but I don't know what to search for?

@ShallowBeThyGames 14 лет назад

@MrDemonshalo Fair play. I'm not entirely sure that it necessarily needs to be incorporated into every bit of data. If it were only used in news, I'm sure it would raise the impact given to certain fact and figures. Just seeing the difference in carbon emissions by the Icelandic volcano and the grounding of planes was quite the eye opener for me.

@ben_east_ 6 месяцев назад

"A clearing in an information Jungle" - interesting!

@jpzurf 4 года назад

3:15 - interesting to the context of past panics in the media are much the same today as in the past 20 years - pandemics and stinging insects!

@LeetMath 3 года назад

yeah not sure what everyone was panicking about with this coronavirus thing

@BenKressel 14 лет назад

"Let the dataset change your mindset." Nice one!

@MrDemonshalo 14 лет назад

@ShallowBeThyGames I've actually tried to make a statistics website that uses a model like that instead of just relying on the X Y model where variables are static and non comparable. The problem was that there is too much data out there and sorting everything out in the right order takes a huge amount of time and effort, which is why I had to shut it down. Yet still I believe that we will need a software like that in the near future to be able to visualize data and come to new conclusions

@somethingness 14 лет назад

"When you're lost in information, an information map is kinda useful." Indeed.

@braap02 14 лет назад

First off, why is the right red and the left blue? And where can i see these infogrpahics? they look very intriguing.

@syntaxpromo 14 лет назад

@DrQuijano it depends whether your from Uk or USA doesn't it. Information is beautiful do versions for each.

@xNickTheBrickx 14 лет назад

at 2:35 he says "douche"... the appropriate sound effect.

@ExclusiveManual 14 лет назад

fantastic

@standardguru8 13 лет назад

what are the programs he uses? and where to get them? does anyone know??

@ChristiaanMeyer 12 лет назад

I have his book!

@CommanderPipesMcGee 9 лет назад

There's your data boys. If your girl is planning a trip for spring break without you.. dump her lol

@DeviantincTV 14 лет назад

Does the Rolex add remind anyone else of Zoolander - "water is the essence of wetness, wetness is the essence of beauty" I love data visualisations BTW - makes me wanna be a data analyst!

@KnightsofEmerald 14 лет назад

That was an epic Rolex commercial at the end O.o

@tessb 13 лет назад

LOL at the breakup peak on april fools. "its over" "OH GOOD ONE HAHA!" "..... no seriously."

@Thiink2ice 10 лет назад

i scrolled down here before the commercial started and i was like "what the hell did he just watch?"

@SamSpade2010 14 лет назад

@Santi2c So where's it come from in the first place?

@mekilae 14 лет назад

@TheLiberalSoup saw that too

@TurboGC8 14 лет назад

I was schooled in a Private Christian school that watch recorded classrooms on tape and we had supervisers, but my point is that I grew up watching television to learn and same with cable television as a child. Im a History / Discover / Science channel lover.

@j_honce 13 лет назад

where can i find all these graphs and apps?!

@RudeTubeC4 13 лет назад

@arhabersham easy. pay slip + bank statement + excel spreadsheet + graph maker

@greifocs 14 лет назад

@takigan I respect a watch that is more badass than me. (That's not very much, but still. It's very hard for a watch.)

@doloppost 14 лет назад

I think data visualisation is the new wave that will transform the way we look at the world. Foursquare tells you where you hang out, Sniftag tells you who your dog is seeing and augmented reality adds another layer to reality. What comes after that could be scary: setting standards and automatic adjustments. Coming home and your intelligent house putting up a Michael Bolton song because you seem "stressed".

@Kommaseir 14 лет назад

Interesting

@superwesman 13 лет назад

@arhabersham use mint.com dude! it was an eye opener for me

@tantarantaran 13 лет назад

finally, no more sitting 12000 feet deep underwater and not knowing what time it is!

@startreking 14 лет назад

Program ends at 18:14

@EclecticSceptic 13 лет назад

I laughed when I saw 'April Fool's Day'. Hahaha

@siausitehopa 13 лет назад

at 11:00 Thank you.

@kapa1611 14 лет назад

nice one : )

@CptFuzzball 14 лет назад

data means knowledge ... and knowledge, as everyone knows, is power. But I'd never thought I'd say data equals beauty.

@christo930 14 лет назад

The military budget is $1T, not 600 billion according to a peer reviewed study in 2009.

@clemofish 13 лет назад

@takigan i would thank rolex for making ted possible

@DarwinsBeerReviews 14 лет назад

I had a breakup two weeks before Christmas. Turns out to be a popular time. Who knew.

@colourmegone 14 лет назад

@lordmetroid No, he actually showed that the amount that US citizens give to charity dwarfs their foriegn aid budget. That's what he meant when he used the word 'generous'. Of course there are all kinds of charities, some of which aren't really very charitable.

@jmwee 13 лет назад

Makes me want to be a data nerd (meant in the nicest way)

@PDeRop 11 лет назад

Please read Dambisa Moyo's book : Dead Aid

@maximusspqr 13 лет назад

Whenever a british person says 'master' I think of Jedis.

@warlockjd 12 лет назад

@ChrisAFM Effective visualizations tell the story of the data. He just makes a pretty picture that is very hard to figure out what is going on. Hence the bad name I discuss.

@daniaghassoub794 4 года назад

Oh the angle view of the cameraman underneath the speaker is just awful. Everything else very interesting !

@LilyRoberts123 11 лет назад

the rolex ad stole Edward Scissorhand's soundtrack!!!!

@adam.phelps 14 лет назад

He has some pretty pictures.

@TrollinLikeABosh 11 лет назад

I am here for the Rolex commercial.

@47f0 14 лет назад

@WeatherManToBe - Do you not know that words like "trillion" and "billion" have different meanings, depending on your country? Trillion, for the record, may mean either 10^18, or 10^12.

@B1aDK 13 лет назад

At 14:26 - Plants, where is WEED? Btw, why is Green tea both above and below the line?

@ChrisAFM 12 лет назад

@warlockjd Interesting you say that, can you enlighten me on your opinion?

@samala51 11 лет назад

Fuaaaark TED ROCKS

@brinstar117 14 лет назад

I don't know where he got his bandwidth figures of computer devices at 09:25, but they're all vastly off the mark. It shows: 1250 MB/s - same bandwidth as a computer network 125 MB/s - USB key 12.5 MB/s - hard disk A computer network is a rather vague description, but 1000 Mbit/s (125 MB/s) is the fastest consumer level network card speed. USB 2.0 is limited to 60MB/s. Most USB keys transfer at a max of ~30 MB/s. A hard disk transfers at up to ~150 MB/s. Where did he get these numbers?

@Redbeef 11 лет назад

pleasantly surprised that the word 'douche' is now an appropriate sound effect

@arct1c409 13 лет назад

@arhabersham isn't this what Mint.com is working towards?

@bdrobe2 11 лет назад

Zornwil, he specifically said, "This is the landscape for violent video games". Not, "This is the landscape for media driven fear". Point? The media only discussed 1 subject, terrorism. Therefore, there WOULD be a gap in data representing the, "landscape for violent video games". My co-workers didn't understand that part either.

@SwobyJ 14 лет назад

@DrQuijano I'm with cykolink - though USA has it the other way, in most other countries red is for the left and (maybe) blue on the right. Orange for the more socialized/unionized left, (red and) black for the fascists, green for the environmental, etc.

@warlockjd 12 лет назад

@ChrisAFM Read Stepehen Few's blog, Perceptual Edge for more. Do a google search for "perceptualedge, David McCandless. He has a 1 page review of this presentation and is more eloquent than I

@drukenhard 14 лет назад

@TheSpiritOfTheTimes I assume you mean "Carbon neutral volcano" or when he said "douche"

@MrDemonshalo 14 лет назад

@ShallowBeThyGames That certainly will be the case. I was for instance thinking of taking all the data the cia.gov website has through a simple script and then make countries like China & US comparable on all possible scales like x = age, Y = child-mortality, Color = total inhabitant per country and regular Text for additional variable comparison =) How main question is, how many people would actually use such a service?

@lonetallsassy 14 лет назад

@happysplodie He's British, our 'Left' is socialist hence Red. Our 'Right' is conservative (also with a upper case C) hence Blue.

@KnightsofEmerald 14 лет назад

@WeatherManToBe yeah, but he wanted to keep the same units for better comparason. That's the whole point of this lecturesd: presenting data properly. Don't compare apples with oranges.

@andrewmiller1359 4 года назад

It is too bad that visuals were not displayed for longer periods of time. It is like saying there is a beautiful painting in the room, but look at me talk about it. Otherwise, the topic was super interesting.

@momentary_ 14 лет назад

@WeatherManToBe What's easier to visualize and compare? 1 trillion and 20 billion? or 1,000 billion and 20 billion.

@eainen 14 лет назад

So. In essence, this guy grabs things from info threads on 4chan and posts it around? :P

@takigan 14 лет назад

Nice, Rolex. So if I ever decide to go Scuba Diving in a deep-sea trench, I can rest assured that my Rolex watch will remain perfectly intact and functional, even if I no longer am.

@LeonidasGGG 13 лет назад

Isn't this a science... Infography? If it ain't, it should be. And it should be used everywhere.

@nathanapollon3568 9 лет назад

what did he mean by saying Data is the new soil? anybody?

@Nashy119 14 лет назад

We need websites, lots and lots of websites.

@rajandharni 13 лет назад

@funnyj i want to know too

@BravoSquirrel 12 лет назад

Why would that matter?

@luh2 13 лет назад

I agree, that context is very important, but who chooses what's important? I think images are easier to believe, but they contain also way better possibilities of suggesting things that aren't, - even more dangerous than really wrong data, because they might be correct, and still portray and transmit the wrong idea! Think about this for a second. I'd be careful with over rating, and being overly happy with visualised data!

@webgpu 14 лет назад

Rolex Deepsea.I bet Aquaman has one.

@MumblinGamer 4 года назад

is it just me or does this guy sound like Noel Fielding

@SamSpade2010 14 лет назад

Profiteering = where the money comes from in the first place

@IdleGod 14 лет назад

@JoesephKatana Go to his website, find the spreadsheet he used. The study he cites has significant flaws. Even if it wasn't flawed, it was only set up to show that it wasn't harmful; meaning you cannot conclude a positive effect from it.

@jiopjiop 14 лет назад

06:18 so funny

@wasdwasdedsf 13 лет назад

eh where

@mynes120 14 лет назад

@mikeyman211 HAS IT GOT YOUR ATTENTION NOW

@allenofblacksteel9169 10 лет назад

Why did David McCandless develop the Billion dollar o gram?

@Reimancd 13 лет назад

I want eleven thousand nine hundred billion Rolexes

@rg0057 14 лет назад

I disagree about the military numbers. What's important in a military is how much damage it can do to other nations, not how much money is available to be spent, or how many people AREN'T in it. When you get down to it, a military only represents and acts on the orders of its government (if that) and is not accountable to the people at all.

@dpennst 9 лет назад

This is informal. But dum i have to watch this for school

@nonz3r0 14 лет назад

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@zornwil 11 лет назад

I can visualize things quite neatly as well if I Ignore major things and create my own universe of information without a clear set of criteria other than as I like. The "fears" thing is a primary example, it's a bit of nonsense ot talk about "here's fears the media reports" and ignore 9/11 and terrorism and say "ah, that created a gap!" Even though that's not the point, it's the visualizations, problem is that how do you visualize the more complex reality he ignores?

@dwill8043 10 лет назад

We are all in debt to the carbon sinks, it used to be the carbon banks. But the internet search engines don't reflect that phrase the same anymore, adapted metaphors i guesses.

@Doggieman1111 13 лет назад

@odouroushouseant plausible theory

@KGR89 14 лет назад

@Origen305 Ironically all this proves is that visual data can be jsut as easily manipulated as text data.

@warlockjd 12 лет назад

Sure, but I'll let Stephen Few speak: " In McCandless’ case, the stories that they usually tell, if communicated in words alone, would require only a short sentence or two. They make a simple statement in a way that looks lighthearted and fun. As such, they invite viewers to accept the message superficially, not to explore or contemplate deeply. This is not the true realm of analytics."