And there should be, in this field, really.
Prominent bloggers in data visualisation.
I mean, think about it. Information aesthetics is about engagement, narrative, emotions, thinking about multiple things concurrently. Women are best at these things, not men! So why are the men talking about it?! I dunno. =)
Not, of course, discounting Fernanda Viegas and others.
Why The Outliers Is Here #3: Someone needs to make stuff and explain it.
I mean in the context of information aesthetics. There’s a lot of great work out there like eigenfactor that is fantastically documented, but 1. not many works like of that quality exist and 2. not many works in general are documented well.
The problem is that most of the people who make so-called information aesthetic visualisation haven’t got the background to be able to talk about it in theoretical ways. Which is a shame, because this is the problem: no discourse, no moving forward; things get blogged, reblogged, rereblogged…and forgotten.
So I will make a pact with you now to make stuff. And talk about it. Yeah!