I think it is the next step towards a definitive collective information burnout. We live in a time of data mining and so people are looking for easy-to-read visual translations of complex data.
Renson: Right, and that's why data journalism is also on the rise: experts are needed who can filter the right story from data. That was exactly what I missed in Nederland van Boven. Hopefully, the VPRO will catch up in the sequel, you new zealand telegram data would think that there are enough visually oriented journalists working there.
Paul: By the way, it is a beautiful book: 488 pages with essays and projects based on Time, Category, Location, Hierarchy and Index.
Renson: Here, look: Man as Industrial Palace, by Fritz Kahn from 1926 – what a gem.
Paul: All my favorites are in there: the Atlas of the New Dutch Waterline by Joost Grootens, the Flight Patterns by Aaron Koblin, the personal annual reports by Nicholas Feltron. I do miss the progressive data visualizations by the American agency Stamen. They really belong in there.