In chapter 2 of Graphesis, Interpreting Visualization: Visualization Interpretation, Drucker describes many different graphical visualization forms in the history, and classify them into different parameters such as, graphical format, intellectual purpose or function, the type of content they express, the way they structure meaning and their disciplinary origins. She traces…
Knowledge and/as visionVisual was given high priorityVisual representation remains suspects as a form of knowledge Visual images are not constructed by a given set of rulesBUTGraphical representation has encoded and communicated knowledge for centuries Architecture -Vitruvius -its style relied on the use of graphic techniques that supports visual comparison…
'Subtleties of Color' by Robert Simmon is a very decent and interesting research and lecture on digital color and its application to Data Visualization. Interestingly, unlike the art and design lectures I took before, 'Subtleties of Color' is telling the story of using color from a data visualization scientist objective…
The articles from the reading #1 give a general sense of how the data visualization can be used as a tool to tell different stories, and what are some typical mistakes that we should avoid when we are trying to visualize data, as indicated in "Bar chart axes should include…
Visual Diff is a differencing representation that shows the difference between two objects(Text documents, pictures, etc). For instance, two columns of text connected by lines to show where changes have been made. or two documents with the color bar on the text which highlights the adding and deleting have…