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Benjamin Fry
"There is a space of highly complex systems for which we lack deep understanding because few techniques exist for visualization of data whose structure and content are continually changing. My research focuses on developing approaches to such data, in particular, the human genome."
Main Page and Chromosome Studies: Experiments in Genomic Cartography
From an interview on since1968.com:
"In my own work, the ideas and emotions have to do with enormous amounts of data. As I cannot draw such diagrams by hand, or process such data in my head, then I have to employ computation. In undergrad I studied graphic design and computer science, so I'm interested in trying to weave the two together as a way to visualize and understand more enormous amounts of data than can be dealt with using standard graphic design techniques... that is, I can't sit down with Adobe Illustrator and layout a poster with all 30-40,000 genes in the human genome by hand... especially when the data keeps changing."
Thanks for the heads up James.