Manuel Lima: Visualizing Knowledge

Why do we organize our families into trees, our corporations into boxy, top-down reporting structures, and our learning into outlines-when we all know that everything is just a bit more complicated than that? Hailed as "the man who turns data into art,” Manuel Lima believes knowledge is not only less modular and centralized than we may perceive; it’s also more beautiful. In his follow-up to the massively popular The Book of Trees (about branches of knowledge), Lima, a data visualization specialist and Google Design Lead, brings us The Book of Circles, in which he explores spheres of knowledge, and curates a new taxonomy for the incredible visual diversity and-to quote Lima himself-“immensely gorgeous” representations of what we know.
This program is generously underwritten by Lisa and Paul Wiggin.
This program was recorded on November 3, 2018.
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