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December 8th, 2009

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Everything simple and shared

Data revolution, more and more, always and non-stop. Organizing all the currently available information for a better understanding of our society isn’t an easy task, be it to count public transport data, or even to understand a soap opera. This is what Fernanda Viégas did, using the data visualization resource.

She’s a computing designer and has presented the site Many Eyes to the audience at TEDx SP. The site aims to change complex statistics into visually easy to understand graphics. “It’s very hard when information is delivered in massive amounts of data in spreadsheets” Fernanda confirms.

Then came Many Eyes. At that site any person can insert data, and the site changes them into graphics that can be understood by a glance. As mentioned, even a Brazilian  soap opera can be an example. The exemplification made all the audience laugh, when they realized they could follow the entire plot without even watching it on TV.

Fernanda shows this project that is very much in tune with the TEDx SP proposition: to share ideas, possibilities and to pave ways which indicate a harmonious world. And she does all that, making us laugh.

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