Visual Data Quotes

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

I consider the pixel data in images and video to be the dark matter of the Internet.

I hate charts. I just despise 'em.

No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually.

A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.

Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.

How do you photograph data?

If you think about all the light that enters - that enters the lens of a camera, that's much more than a photo. The light field is all the higher-dimensional information that's lost in a regular photo. When we record all this information, that provides us the opportunity in software after the fact.