Detroit has had a rough few years: its principal industry, automobiles, has been shrinking and two of its principal players almost disappeared. Housing prices collapsed (two artists created “Ice House Detroit” to dramatize foreclosures there and elsewhere) and the population plummeting. Now the mayor, working with a group known as Data-Driven Detroit (D3), is planning [...]
Here at the IIA we are big fans of data visualization because it can make complex data sets and concepts easier to understand — particularly for a lay (or non-quantitative) audience. If a picture is worth a thousand words, it is probably worth at lease 100 data points. Imagine, for example, the “state of the [...]
Rarely has a product announcement been as anticipated, hyped, and speculated upon as much as Apple’s launch of the iPad last week. One would have thought the device had the potential to cure world hunger and put an astronaut on Mars at the same time. While the iPad met with many oohs-and-ahhhs, some yawns, and [...]
