A video review of three new books on data from The Economist with some interesting points.
Among things mentioned in the review, which I found via Flowing Data, is the evocative Wind Map, done by data visualization experts from Google, but as an art project, that ended up at MOMA in fact. Perhaps there’s a corollary to the famous Arthur C. Clark line, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” To wit: “Any sufficiently sophisticated data visualization is indistinguishable from art.”
A Few Reasonable Words 