Keynote with Jeffrey Veen - HighEdWeb 2008 Conference

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AcZQSGxnP-Y

• Find a story in the data (using GoogleAnalytics for eg)
  
• Assign visual cues to each dimension of the data
• Remove everything that isn't telling a story
• Release control when publishing on the web (see CSS Zen Garden) --> interactivity
• Let users discover their own story, develop tools that lets user control their data
  
• Provide filters to enable clarity
• A word from entrepreneurs, "Everything I've built has come from the frustration that it didn't yet exist "
• New ideas come from your heart, not from your wallet
• When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple with all these simple solutions, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. And your solutions are way too over simplified, and they don't work. ... Then you get into the problem, and you see it's really complicated. And you come up with all these solutions. That's sort of the middle and most people stop, and the solutions tend to work for a while ... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key and underlying principle of the problem, and come up with a beautiful and elegant solution that works. -- Steve Jobs
• Find inspiration from the fossils and the users