Noah Iliinsky

Noah Iliinsky
Visualization Expert, IBM

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Noah Iliinsky is the technical editor of, and a contributor to, Beautiful Visualization, published By O’Reilly Media.

He has spent the last several years thinking, writing, and speaking about best practices for designing information visualizations. He also works in interface and interaction design, all from a functional and user-centered perspective. Before becoming a designer he was a programmer for several years.

He has a master’s in Technical Communication from the University of Washington, and a bachelor’s in Physics from Reed College.

Sessions

11:30am Friday, 09/23/2011
Designing Data Visualizations: Telling Stories With Data
Interface
 Location: Murray Hill Suite A
Noah Iliinsky (IBM)
Average rating: ****.
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A jumpstart lesson on how to get from a blank page and a pile of data to a useful data visualization. We'll focus on the design process, not specific tools. The talk will include discussion of figuring out what story to tell, selecting right data, and picking appropriate encodings. We'll briefly discuss tools and visualization styles, and look at several examples. Read more.

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