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What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

~David Mccandless

Topics: Being Data Detective Finding Hidden Journalist Love Love Is Patterns I Love

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Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.

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Topics: Around Data Easily Innovations Insights Kind New Provide Resource Shape Us Very Ubiquitous

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I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the Web, and we're all visualizers now; we're all demanding a visual aspect to our information. There's something almost quite magical about visual information. It's effortless; it literally pours in.

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Topics: About Almost Aspect Being Day Demanding Design Effortless Every Every Day Eyes Feel Information Literally Magical Now Our Poured Quite Something Through Us Visual Web I Feel

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Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.

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By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes: a sort of information map. And when you're lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.

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Topics: Explore Eyes Information Kind Landscape Lost Map Sort Turn Useful You Your

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Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.

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I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of a situation that I can grasp in a second.

~David Mccandless

Topics: Busy Current Grasp Information Instant Love Need Second Situation Sometimes Stay Want I Love I Can

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Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth.

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Topics: Agency Around Been Birth Design Edward Guru Having Information Internet Known Like Long Now Pioneers Power Rise Second Since Something University Used Yale 1970S

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In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. It's a relief.

~David Mccandless

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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