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1. Natural Data Viz:
- Visualizing wind patterns at a global scale.
2. Narrative communication/Natural Data Viz.
Admittedly it's not a particularly original example, but for our area of focus the combined projection of people, moving across space, and the implicit and explicit effect of nature is important and relevant. Sorry Mr. Tufte.
3. Ecologically engaged art.
Richard Misrach, Cancer Alley
https://fraenkelgallery.com/portfolios/petrochemical-america
Misrach is fine art photographer who has spent much of his career documenting the effects of humans on their landscapes, particularly in areas that are dangerous, contested, poisoned, and forgotten or deliberately ignored. Check out the Cancer Alley series on the stretch of the Mississippi largely occupied by the petrochemical industry.
4. Eco-engaged art/narrative communication
http://aperture.org/blog/richard-misrach-and-kate-orff-in-conversation/
Petrochemical America is a collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach (see above) and Geographer/Cartographer/Social Scientist Kate Orff. Orff "unpacks" Misrach's photos by examining and portraying the interactions of people, industry, consumption, and and the natural landscape that the photos show only one layer of.
5. Some resources:
A library of java tools for data visualization.
Mike is a former colleague from Square (now at the NYT doing data viz) with a great set of examples of data viz.
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