Education and Outreach Colloquium, Rob Simmon

Affiliation: NASA/SSAI
Event Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Location: Bldg 33, Room H114
Time: 12:00 PM

Visualization Techniques from Design and Cartography
Visualization is one of the most important tasks of modern scientific communication, but many scientists and outreach specialists rely on ad-hoc presentations of data. Drawing from the ancient discipline of cartography and the modern field of information design, Simmon will outline techniques for presenting data clearly and accurately, with an emphasis on Earth science and remote sensing.


About Our Speaker:
Robert Simmon is a data visualizer and designer for NASA's Earth Observatory web site. With 14 years of experience at NASA, he is an expert at creating clear and compelling imagery from satellite data. He focuses on producing visualizations that are elegant and easily understandable, while accurately presenting the underlying data. His imagery has appeared in newspapers, web sites, and advertisements, and featured on the login screen of the Apple iPhone.

Bibliography:
Tufte, Edward R., Envisioning Information

Tufte, Edward R., Visual Explanations : Images and Quantities, Evidence
and Narrative

Tufte, Edward R., The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Williams, Robin, The Non-Designer's Design Book


Links:
Color Brewer:
http://colorbrewer.org/ (non-NASA link)

Edward Tufte:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/ (non-NASA link)

Getting Real: Reflecting on the New Look of National Park Service Maps
http://www.shadedrelief.com/realism/index.html (non-NASA link)

NASA Ames Color Tool:
http://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov/ColorTool.php

My "visualization" bookmarks on Delicious:
http://delicious.com/rsimmon/visualization (non-NASA link)

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Posted or updated: Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Editor: Paul Przyborski

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