Comments on: Infoviz Education: Animated Visualizations for Kids

By: We now live in a world where information is potentially unlimited. Information is cheap, but meaning is expensive — Nogiets

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:27:38 +0000

[...] Visual Storytelling’: New Language for the Age of Data Overload OCT 26 2011, 11:57 AM ET We no… Visual Storytelling’: New Language for the Age of Data Overload OCT 26 2011, 11:57 AM ET We now live in a world where information is potentially unlimited. Information is cheap, but meaning is expensive. Where is the meaning? Only human beings can tell you where it is. We’re extracting meaning from our minds and our own lives. These words of wisdom come from legendary inventor and futurist George Dyson, who in a recent interview contemplated the growing disconnect between information and meaning in the age of data overload. Over the past several years, our quest to extract meaning from information has taken us more and more toward the realm of visual storytelling — we’ve used data visualization to reveal hidden patterns about the world, employed animation in engaging kids with important issues, and let infographics distill human emotion. In fact, our very brains are wired for the visual over the textual by way of the pictorial superiority effect. [...]

By: ‘Visual Storytelling’: New Language for the Age of Data Overload | B.log

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:37:05 +0000

[...] — we’ve used data visualization to reveal hidden patterns about the world, employed animation in engaging kids with important issues, and let infographics distill human emotion. In fact, our very brains are [...]

By: Brain Pickings Redux 2010 | Brain Pickings

Brain Pickings Redux 2010 | Brain Pickings — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:29:24 +0000

[...] looked at three excellent examples of infographic storytelling for kids and traced the origins of animation all the way back to the early [...]

By: The Beast File: Infographic Storytelling | Brain Pickings

The Beast File: Infographic Storytelling | Brain Pickings — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:20:49 +0000

[...] spot for infographic storytelling — from a data-driven take on The Little Red Riding Hood to animated infoviz for kids to an infographic breakdown of web history. We’ve recently discovered a wonderful Australian [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:57:09 +0000

While I love The Story of Stuff, I don’t think that 20-minute video is “kid-appropriate.” I wouldn’t burden anyone younger than 14 with that kind of soul-crushing (albeit true) negativity, not to mention that some of the concepts are a bit too complex for kids, even though the visuals could be helpful. It goes on for 19 straight minutes of pessimism before getting to the “good part” about it (i.e. that grown-ups are helping). That video alone doesn’t show kids how to help, and although I think Annie Leonard is amazing and has great intentions with the video, I can’t believe she says something like “recycling will never be enough.” That is a terrible message to impressionable kids, which I know is just her way of inspiring action.

I’d caution parents to watch the whole video before taking the nonchalant recommendation of scores of retweeters.

By: Maria Popova

Maria Popova — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:58:24 +0000

@Denis:

Thanks so much for stopping by. Fantastic work with How To Feed The World. Looking forward to Google-Translating my way through your blog. Cheers.

By: Denis van Waerebeke

Denis van Waerebeke — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:49:16 +0000

Hi !

I’m the author of “How to feed the world ?”
and I like your blog alot.
I do love the “Brain pickings” idea.

Curiously my own blog uses quite the same visual idea. Its called “L’ameublement du cerveau” (furniture for the brain) You can read it (in French) here :

http://dvanw.blogspot.com