Having watched it on Vimeo, I seriously wish I had watched the ANNOTATED VERSION, HERE.
Journalism in the Age of Data on Vimeo. It’s 50 minutes, but it’s a really good watch and I wanted to finish the whole thing before I posted it.
Potentially Useful Notes:
-The woman who oversees and works on all the New York Times infographics, Amanda Cox, shows up a lot and is one of my favorite characters—mainly because their infographics are actually cool. I’ve never seen anything like them.
-Around 14 minutes the documentary takes a turn from praises and successes to failures.
-By 20-21 minutes the focus switches to the highs and lows of acclaim at the Malofiej design conference/awards
-26 explains, using an infographic, why the awards are meaningless.
-27 minutes in gets into individuals and data, featuring Felton’s work.
-31 we see kanye/taylor and the lack of exploration into realtime data vis.
-Shortly after that it gets back into efficacy and accessibility, which has been the major theme of the documentary.
-By 40 we’re well into the boundaries of infographics, like the limits of ways to do infographics for the web (javascript, but mostly Flash).
-I stopped taking notes towards the end, it takes like 15 minutes to close things up.
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