It's about playing to a medium's strengths to better present information.

It's about playing to a medium's strengths to better present information. For example, on a computer we can use live data and we can offer interactive ways to explore the data and what happens as it changes. We aren't limited to giving a static view of fixed data as, say, a book would be. Victor's key point is that better tools for exploring data can help us to understand new concepts that maybe we couldn't even conceive without that expanded frame of reference. This page is itself a subtle demonstration of the underlying themes. Victor gave a talk lasting 40 minutes -- which I encourage you to watch -- but he presents it here using a simple, elegant interaction style that also lets you scan a summary of the key points and get a feel for the key illustrations in far less time. This is more effective than either the full video, the slide show, or a transcript would be alone. That makes it more than a little ironic that you have chosen to reduce your browser to only showing static content by disabling JS, and then posted here just to complain about how the page is broken. If you had used your medium to its full potential, you would now understand how profoundly you have missed his point. :-)

Posted by Silhouette on Feb 25, 2015, 1:07 PM

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