This is the final talk of the semester of the Computer Science Department’s Data Visualization Seminar, and as always is open to the public with no RSVP required:
VISUALIZATION METAPHORS: Unraveling the Big Picture
Wednesday, May 18th 2016
3:00pm – 4pm
The Science Center
Room 4102
Manuel Lima
Parsons School of Design
Abstract: This talk will expose our long-time obsession for deciphering a wider, holistic view of intriguing topics through the use of recurrent visualization metaphors, from understanding the brain, to ordering nature, or mapping the internet. It will particularly explore a critical paradigm shift in the understanding and depiction of knowledge, as we stop relying on hierarchical tree structures and turn instead to networks in order to map the inherent complexities of our modern world. This talk is tied to the publication of “The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge”
Bio: A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, nominated by Creativity magazine as “one of the 50 most creative and influential minds of 2009”, Manuel Lima is the founder of VisualComplexity.com, Design Lead at Google, and a regular teacher of Data Visualization at Parsons School of Design.
Manuel is a leading voice on information visualization and has spoken in numerous conferences, schools and festivals, around the world, including TED, Lift, OFFF, Eyeo, Ars Electronica, IxDA Interaction, Harvard, MIT, Royal College of Art, NYU Tisch School of Arts, ENSAD Pars, University of Amsterdam, MediaLab Prado Madrid. He has also been featured in various magazines and newspapers, such as Wired, New York Times, Science, Nature, BusinessWeek, Creative Review, Fast Company, Forbes, Grafik Magazine, SEED, Étapes, and El País.
His first book Visual Complexity: Mapping patters of information has been translated into French, Chinese and Japanese. His latest The Book of Trees: Visualization Branches of Knowledge, published by Princeton Architectural Press in April 2014, covers 800 years of human culture through the lens of the tree figure, from its entrenched roots in religious medieval exegesis to its contemporary, secular digital themes.
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