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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. Fry received his BFA in Communication Design, minor in Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon University. 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. == Career ==
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. The Processing design environment developed together with Casey Reas won a Golden Nica from the Prix Ars Electronica in 2005. Fry's artwork has been featured in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial (2003, 2006) He is the winner of the 2011 National Design Award in category "Interaction Design". == Books ==
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 ==See also==
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