It’s been a while.
| October 12, 2011 | Posted by Jef McClimans under Article |
So, it’s been a while since I last posted–like 6 months a while. I apologize for that. I’ve been busy working on some other non-visualization-related projects. I spent the summer getting certified in Regional Geographical Information Systems (REGIS), so mapping will be far more accessible in the future, at least using ESRI products. I finally started reading Nathan Yau’s book, Visualize This, which I highly suggest. The book is very well-written, and has the perfect tone and amount of humor so you don’t get bogged down in the information.
Fun news part one: I will be spending more time in the coming weeks, months and the rest of my life learning more about design, making designs interactive, organizing data, mining data, (I will be trying my damnedest to learn Python), and trying to turn this into an actual business, with the whole LLC bit and everything that goes with that. Let’s hope this does not turn into a ridiculous headache.
Now for fun news part two: a few months ago I was hired by an awesome SEO company called Pear Analytics to design infographics for their clients. Awesome, right? It is. They are great people to work for and I get to do what I love. I get to work on a bunch of ideas I never would have considered as fodder for a project beforehand, which definitely has helped expand my thought process on where to collect data and how to visually represent it. Woot! Most of the work is more on the infographic side of things, some are a mix between infographics and data visualizations. This is me saying that I will be using the “infographics” term much more here in the future. I will be displaying some, most, or all of the work I do for them here. I will also talk about what steps I took to create the infographic, what struggles I had and things I learned.
Again, sorry for the lapse in posting; I should be a bit more consistent in the coming months.
-Jef
