Ben Fry : Anemone – Web Traffic Visualisation

An organism that monitors web traffic. Using the process of organic information design to visualize the changing structure of a web site, juxtaposed with usage information. Ben Fry received his doctoral degree from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as Computer Science, Statistics, Graphic Design, and Data Visualization as a means for understanding complex data. After completing his thesis, he spent time developing tools for the visualization of genetic data as a postdoc with Eric Lander at the Eli & Edyth Broad Insitute of MIT & Harvard. During the 2006-2007 school year, Ben was the Nierenberg Chair of Design for the the Carnegie Mellon School of Design. He currently works as a designer in Cambridge, MA. More info: benfry.com