Data visuals

The lecture on data visualization was very interesting it seems that data visualizations are as the name suggests visualisations of data, these have many advantages. one being that they are more entertaining and appealing to the viewer and thus beneficial in attaining one of the only physical scarcitys of the internet, Attention. it also can be helpful in exposing trends and patterns that are not immediatly identifyable in the raw data or numbers. they also look very cool with the data being able to take on many forms and can be used uniquely for example a band interested with global warming could have themselves appear in a music clip as animated clipings of data gathered on the crisis.

I decided against doing the data visualization assignment because for me it seems far more difficult and has less freedom that the geo0 tag assignment which is reminiscent of the wolfen Flickr Api that was shown to us in an earlier lecture.