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	<description>Making the Complex Accessible: Information Visualization and Interaction Design by Noah Iliinsky</description>
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		<title>Properties and Best Uses of Visual Encodings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my table of properties and best uses of visual encodings. Feel free to download the PDF.]]></description>
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		<title>Great visualization: Pro-football game charts</title>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2011/12/great-visualization-pro-football-game-charts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Chartball.com: Pro-football game charts. They&#8217;ve done an excellent job here, visually representing: direction of play position of each down game time on the vertical axis type of play (run, pass, kick) scoring events other events, such as fumbles and intercepts Great use of the field metaphor and direction, as well as team colors. I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New book: Designing Data Visualizations</title>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2011/09/new-book-designing-data-visualizations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thrilled to announce my latest book, Designing Data Visualizations. The goal of this book is to teach you the process of designing a visualization, presenting the important considerations, and informing the choices that you make. It&#8217;s tool-agnostic, and is entirely applicable to visualizations with high and low volumes of data, and to both quantitative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UIE Virtual seminar podcast</title>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2011/05/uie-virtual-seminar-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://complexdiagrams.com/2011/05/uie-virtual-seminar-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 08:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the podcast and transcript that goes with my virtual seminar on visualization for UIE. In this podcast I talk a lot about basic visualization concepts, with some good Q&#038;A. It&#8217;s good foundational material.]]></description>
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		<title>Video of my sameAs talk in London</title>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2011/05/video-of-my-sameas-talk-in-london/</link>
		<comments>http://complexdiagrams.com/2011/05/video-of-my-sameas-talk-in-london/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 03:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the video of the talk I gave at sameAs in London on March 28th. It&#8217;s about 15 minutes, and is a lighthearted look at good and bad visualization techniques and designs. The audience was about 130 geeks with pints; my slides were being controlled for me. Many thanks to @Kaythaney for inviting me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Visualization Chapter 1: On Beauty</title>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2011/05/beautiful-visualization-chapter-1-on-beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 08:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from my chapter in Beautiful Visualization. You can download a pdf of the entire chapter.



Chapter One: On Beauty, by Noah Iliinsky

This chapter is an examination of what we mean by beauty in the context of visualization, why it’s a worthy goal to pursue, and how to get there. We’ll start with a discussion of the elements of beauty, look at some examples and counterexamples, and then focus on the critical steps to realize a beautiful visualization.

[I use the words visualization and visual interchangeably in this chapter, to refer to all types of structured representation of information. This encompasses graphs, charts, diagrams, maps, storyboards, and less formally structured illustrations.]

What is Beauty?
What do we mean when we say a visual is beautiful? Is it an aesthetic judgment, in the traditional sense of the word? It can be, but when we’re discussing visuals in this context, beauty can be considered to have four key elements, of which aesthetic judgment is only one. For a visual to qualify as beautiful, it must be aesthetically pleasing, yes, but it must also be novel, informative, and efficient.]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast with Jared Spool</title>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2011/03/spoolcast/</link>
		<comments>http://complexdiagrams.com/2011/03/spoolcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jared Spool interviewed me for Brain Sparks. It&#8217;s a 30 minute podcast; the title is Steps to Beautiful Visualizations. Update: there&#8217;s a mostly-accurate transcript available as well.]]></description>
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		<title>How to design visualizations</title>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2010/12/how-to-do-it/</link>
		<comments>http://complexdiagrams.com/2010/12/how-to-do-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I posted a quick process reference called How to design good data visualizations, diagrams, and information graphics over at O&#8217;Reilly Answers.]]></description>
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		<title>Organic growth of a social network</title>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2010/01/organic-growth-of-a-social-network/</link>
		<comments>http://complexdiagrams.com/2010/01/organic-growth-of-a-social-network/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This movie reveals more knowledge by showing not only which individuals know each other, but also when and how the social network formed, by calling out the contexts and individuals responsible for an introduction between two new friends. Visually representing more complexity allows the viewer a deeper understanding of the social dynamics and causalities involved. ]]></description>
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		<title>Working on Beautiful Visualization book</title>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2009/12/bvbook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very excited to announce that I&#8217;m technical editor for, and contributing a chapter to, the book Beautiful Visualization, due out in April from O&#8217;Reilly. It is a collection of case studies and articles discussing how various beautiful information visualizations were achieved and how to create your own. Stay tuned for updates as events warrant.]]></description>
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