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Edward Tufte, master presenter, author and information design visionary will be in Atlanta on March 24th and 25th.  If you haven't seen him, register here.  You also get all four of his books included in the price. I'll be here and if I can go, possibly we could have a meetup with Professor Tufte ...

  If you work with data (and we all, do both designers and developers).  You'll to head over and check out the Graph Design I.Q. test.  Any fan of Edward Tufte will score a ''10'' on this fun departure.  If you're a developer this should help you think about how to present data (especially when you boss asks you ...

Being a fan of Tufte, I'm always interested in Data Visualization.  I feel one of the best presenters of data is nature.  We see fractals in cauliflower, tree structures in trees and many other complex concepts presented in nature.  Take a look at a couple of photos I pulled when I looked for ''pasture'' on Flickr. When dealing ...

Surface presents some interesting problems with UI.  One is how do you handle large scale datasets?  For example, my digital camera has a 4 gig SD card for storage, which can hold about 1200 photos, what happens when 1200 photos ''spill'' out onto the surface?  Could you imagine having to manually move around 1200 photos?  ...