Blog
Data is the new soil
31st August 2010
Data is the new soil, a creative and fertile medium offering huge opportunities for data detectives to reveal hidden and interesting patterns within the data. This is a fascinating presentation from David McCandless (author of Information is Beautiful) at the TED talk in Oxford in July 2010. Information is beautiful and data is beautiful according to McCandless who is now turning instinctively to data design and visualisation. And he emphasises the need to get relative data as a way of putting the data we are bombarded with in context.
Splendid and thought provoking stuff ahead of a new school year.
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.