Back in College February. As part of one of my modules (Avant Garde in Digital Media) I need to set up a separate Blog. Since I have too many blogs already and my project has to do with Data I will be putting these posts here but they'll be labeled Avant Garde. This is the first such post.
Data can be used in many interesting ways and many boring ways. These range from Tescos barcode scanner app to a library database. One of the most interesting Graphical representation of Data I have seen is on Nuclear testing. It is interesting the impact sudden information has on you.
I had previously read plenty of articles and books on Nuclear Weapons development and the cold war but when you see this portrayed Graphically (as it is done in this video titled "1945-1998") in animation it is simply staggering.
Unsurprisingly it is a Japanese man, Isao Hashimoto that came up with this video. He describes it as "... a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world."
It shows that although text offers in depth analysis it sometimes fails to get across the actual reality of the subject, the scale, the horror, the enormity. I think this video succeeds at all this very well. It also breaks down barriers of accessability, your average 10 year old would not read an academic paper on Nuclear Proliferation but after seeing this he would have a lot of info an insight that otherwise would require hours of reading.
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