The Art of InfoVis Presentation …
I recently stumbled over the “Synoptic” project. It is a nice animated visualization of weather data – not particularly unique, but aesthetically well done.
I don’t have to argue about the lack of any generality regarding data analysis tasks here …
What caught my attention is the overall “staging” of the presentation. When you compare the “Synoptic” page with the (somewhat famous) demo movie of prefuse, you will pretty soon understand what I mean.
As a statistician – who grew up in an academic environment built up by math people – I can at least learn the marketing lessons here …
(Make sure to have your sound turned on, otherwise you will miss the point)