The author believes that one of the effective ways of interpreting the visualizations is understanding their origin, the logical reasoning - why it was created, what kind of information it represents, how did representations develop into the current approaches - in short, an evolution of the visualizations. She takes us…
The author approaches to explaining the system of understanding of visual epistemology through the following pillars of the historical and critical foundation for understanding graphic languages in infoviz and GUI: Casey Reas ::What's termed as software painting is a set of forms in motion (or as Reas puts it- 'drawing,…
In Subtitles of color, Robert Simmon talks about how color was first efficiently used to denote numerical values by the cartographers. He extensively talks about the following aspect of usage of color in data visualization:Basic color theory- Ways the retina detects colors : the cells in our eyes respond to…
Look at Data: What Makes Bad Figures Bad: Kieran HealyHealy discusses the importance of considering 'how human visual perception works' while visualizing data. He describes why it is necessary to get into a habit of thinking about the relationship between the structure of data and the perceptual features of graphics.…
What>> arranged radially as equi-angular spokes around a central point>> the values for adjacent variables in a single series are connected by lines>> the scale of any variable is represented as it's distance from the centre (making it effortless to find out the outliers)…