"Where Numbers Meet Art: Building Data Visualizations In The Modern Web"
summary
Argues that data visualization is an artful practice grounded in cognitive psychology and tradeoffs between precision and pattern recognition, shows a chord diagram of NBA passing that sacrifices exact counts for clear patterns, builds a world-happiness explorer that uses color, annotations and a dropdown to surface stories, and implements an animated 3D globe using three.js with Vue and Vega for side charts, wired to a government temperature API to animate anomalies and demonstrate that the prototypes actually render and reveal surprising trajectories.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Data visualization intro
- 1:26Speaker background
- 3:10Redefining data viz
- 4:34Cognitive psychology
- 7:22Sports data with chords
- 9:47Precision vs pattern recognition
- 11:13History of data viz
- 13:00Beyond numbers
- 15:09Data representation responsibility
- 16:52World Happiness Report viz
- 19:42Storytelling visuals best practices
- 20:25Exploratory viz tools
- 21:49Inspiration across domains
- 22:54Creative coding & 3D globe
- 25:02Conclusion
