Ben Fry

American expert in data visualization (born 1975)

Benjamin Fry
Born	1975 (age 48–49)
Nationality	American

Benjamin Fry is an American designer who has expertise in data visualization.

Early life and education

Fry was born in 1975 in Ann Arbor, Michigan (born 1975).^[1] Fry received his BFA in Communication Design, minor in Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon University.^[2] He received Master and Ph.D. degrees from the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab, under the direction of John Maeda. His doctoral dissertation, "Computational Information Design" introduces the seven stages of visualizing data: acquiring, parsing, filtering, mining, representing, refining and interacting.^[3]

Career

During his time at MIT Media Lab, Fry co-developed Processing, an open-source programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts and visual design communities with the purpose of teaching the basics of computer programming in a visual context.^[4]^[5] The Processing design environment developed together with Casey Reas won a Golden Nica from the Prix Ars Electronica in 2005.^[4] During 2006–2007, Fry was the Nierenberg Chair of Design for the Carnegie Mellon School of Design. He is a principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy in Boston, Massachusetts.^[6]^[7]

Fry's artwork has been featured in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial (2003, 2006)^[1] and the Whitney Biennial (2002), and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2001, 2008), Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria (2000, 2002, 2005) and in the films Minority Report and The Hulk.^{[citation needed]}^[4]^[8]^[9] He is the winner of the 2011 National Design Award in category "Interaction Design."^[7]^[10]

Books

2007: (with Casey Reas) Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, MIT Press
2007: Visualizing Data, O'Reilly
2010: (with Casey Reas) Getting Started with Processing, O'Reilly
2015: (with Casey Reas and Lauren McCarthy) Getting Started with p5.js, O'Reilly

References

^ ^a ^b "Inside design now: National Design Triennial", by Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, "Benjamin Fry"
^ Fry, Benjamin Jotham (2004). Computational information design (Thesis thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/26913.
^ "Computational Information Design", Ph.D. Thesis
^ ^a ^b ^c Ben Fry, author's profile at the O'Reilly website
^ Ben Fry's website
^ Fathom's website, http://fathom.info
^ ^a ^b "Interaction Design : Winner". Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Archived from the original on June 23, 2012. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
^ "Benjamin Fry".
^ "Ben Fry".
^ "National Design Awards: Ben Fry’s ‘Odd Route’ Through Design World Pays Off" Archived 2011-06-20 at the Wayback Machine, by Stephanie Murg, June 15, 2011

External links

Official website
Ben Fry on GitHub

Visualization of technical information

Fields

Image
types

People

Pre-19th century	Edmond Halley Charles-René de Fourcroy Joseph Priestley Gaspard Monge
19th century	Charles Dupin Adolphe Quetelet André-Michel Guerry William Playfair August Kekulé Charles Joseph Minard Luigi Perozzo Francis Amasa Walker John Venn Oliver Byrne Matthew Sankey Charles Booth Georg von Mayr John Snow Florence Nightingale Karl Wilhelm Pohlke Toussaint Loua Francis Galton
Early 20th century	Edward Walter Maunder Otto Neurath W. E. B. Du Bois Henry Gantt Arthur Lyon Bowley Howard G. Funkhouser John B. Peddle Ejnar Hertzsprung Henry Norris Russell Max O. Lorenz Fritz Kahn Harry Beck Erwin Raisz
Mid 20th century	Jacques Bertin Rudolf Modley Arthur H. Robinson John Tukey Mary Eleanor Spear Edgar Anderson Howard T. Fisher
Late 20th century	Borden Dent Nigel Holmes William S. Cleveland George G. Robertson Bruce H. McCormick Catherine Plaisant Stuart Card Pat Hanrahan Edward Tufte Ben Shneiderman Michael Friendly Howard Wainer Clifford A. Pickover Lawrence J. Rosenblum Thomas A. DeFanti George Furnas Sheelagh Carpendale Cynthia Brewer Miriah Meyer Jock D. Mackinlay Alan MacEachren David Goodsell Kwan-Liu Ma Michael Maltz Leland Wilkinson Alfred Inselberg
Early 21st century	Ben Fry Hans Rosling Christopher R. Johnson David McCandless Mauro Martino John Maeda Tamara Munzner Jeffrey Heer Gordon Kindlmann Hanspeter Pfister Manuel Lima Aaron Koblin Martin Krzywinski Bang Wong Jessica Hullman Hadley Wickham Polo Chau Fernanda Viégas Martin Wattenberg Claudio Silva Ade Olufeko Moritz Stefaner