The
power of good infographics is that they can greatly aid in the
upstream aspects of journalism — providing insight for
journalists to understand what's happening with a particular phenomena
— and then downstream, to help journalists tell the story and for the
audience to understand it.
The Digital Revolution has upped the ante far beyond what good ol' Leonardo was using and envisioning. One of the innovators in today's datasphere is Alexander Tsiaras. A recent story in Digital Journal has this to say about Tsiaras's company, Anatomical Travelogue:
“Digital Journal — At ideaCity04, one presenter was so overflowing with
information that host Moses Znaimer had to enter stage right and
patiently sit beside him, a silent reminder to wrap it up. But you
couldn’t ask Alexander Tsiaras to gloss over the wonders of the human
body, from blood flow to cell mutation.
During his presentation, he showed images from his visualization
software company Anatomical Travelogue, whose clients include Nike,
Pfizer and Time Inc. Tsiaras and his 25 employees take data from MRI
scans, spiral CT scans and other medical imaging technologies, and use
them to create scientifically accurate 3D pictures and animations.
In 2003, his book of images of fetal development, From Conception to Birth, sold 150,000 copies and his latest work is Part Two of this fantastic voyage, The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman. For a chapter on sex, Tsiaras even scanned an employee doing the deed with his girlfriend — all in the name of science.”
