I looked at various articles/essays that are relevant to the topic of data visualization, but decided to choose Welcome to the Cloud Zoo by RJ Andrews and Amber Thomas. The visuals of this was very calming and almost ethereal. The concept of “cloud zoo” is interesting and the way they put the live streamed videos on top of a rock that’s similar to the environment that the animals live in ties everything together nicely. The data they used are live streamed videos from different zoos around the world. If you click on the image, you can get additional information on the animals as well as a link to the zoo they got the video from. This allows viewers to enjoy the videos of animals without being distracted from long paragraphs of information. It’s a nice break from reading a lot of text.