Seeing is believing

With the ridiculous amount of data and information at our hands, the use of our senses to understand things becomes more and more important as time goes on and technology grows exponentially. Currently in order to understand data we have 2 ways, we could analyze the numbers in a spreadsheet and compare them to other statistics, or we could visualize them in linear and boring graphs and charts. But artists, scientist, and designers are working towards creatively visualizing our datasets in order create a more intuitive snapshot of what the numbers are telling us. With this, we are seeing more sophisticated methods of visualizing our datasets, and general information becoming more visual.



Here is an amazing website that is dedicated the information visualization Infothetics it's just a nice browse to see how data is becoming more and more visual. In the future I think data and information will be smelt, tasted, and felt. It'll be amazing once things like that become more viable.