June 2013
Quattroshapes: A Global Polygon Gazetteer from Foursquare →
engineering.foursquare.com
this was a good talk at foss4g-na, too
“Is the web the first truly flexible medium? I tried to come up with other fields that need to design things for a flexible canvas, in the hope of finding inspiration there. The only media types I could come up with was the art of balloon printing and the art of tattooing.”
—Other flexible media: balloons and tattoos ⚒ Nerd
“There’s a strand of the data viz world that argues that everything could be a bar chart. That’s possibly true but also possibly a world without joy”
—Amanda Cox, 2013 (Read the full article)
For Example →
bost.ocks.org
This is a rough transcript of my talk on June 6, 2013 at Eyeo. Words and examples have been adapted a bit for the web so may differ slightly from the talk. - Mike Bostock
Revisables →
raphaelbastide.com
Revisable 1 is a physical sculptures based on Git and initiated by Raphael Bastide