RTA 103 Lecture 5: Week 5: Infographics

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As discussed last week, we are leaving data everywhere we go online. According to idc (international data corporation), by 2020 the data we create and copy annually will reach 44 zettabytes, or 44 trillion gigabytes. We also know that we love visual stories, and that we respond to design. Today: infographics, data art, and data visualization. Visually presenting graphical data they break complex ideas down into easily digestible bites. According to the gestalt laws of perception, human brain automatically organizes and groups things it sees by proximity, similarity, continuity and symmetry. Infographics have had a place in maps, reports, diagrams and textbooks for thousands of years. Nightingale: 1854, arrives in crimea during the crimean war. Wounded are dying, medicine is scarce, hygiene left wanting, the sick getting sicker. She wanted change and decided to plead via the times with the british government to fix the problem.

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