Data Swarm

There’s an interesting presentation that has just been posted up at the TED web site. It’s from the conference held last March, and is of Jonathan Harris presenting his work of visualising data found on the web. I feel that his work is closer to pieces of art than anything else.

 

http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf 

 

I like his We Feel Fine piece in particular. The feelings that you find out there on the web through this interface run the whole gamut from trite to profound to downright scary. His Universe piece doesn’t seem to work at the moment, so I can’t comment on that.