Presentations by Simone and Caitlyn & Christian Reading #3 from Graphesis Assignment Exercise 3: Mapping Space…
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…
I chose to write about Jesse James Garrett because, frankly, I do quite a bit of UI/UX work and I wasn't familiar with him or The Elements of User Experience. The graphic below was featured in our reading and I found it interesting for several reasons:It's an informative…
Today was the first I actually saw a printed copy of Johanna Drucker’s Graphesis. I was suprised by it’s size. Being only familiar with the digital pdf version I imagined a work like this, impressive in it's curatorial and conceptual dimensions, would be bigger. This remark might seem…
In the first chapter of Graphesis, Drucker discusses the idea of extracting information from a physical form, such as a person’s face, and analyzing it through graphic representation. This practice, referred to as physiognomy, essentially reads and predicts human personality traits based off of a person's facial features. Giambattista…
FrontmatterJohanna Drucker begins with discussing 2 visuals. One by Kircher in 1669 – a system of the mystic Ramon Llull’s ‘Great art of knowing’ – as PRODUCING the knowledge it draws (which looks like and idea of how humans make connections(?) and Kircher’s computer generated image, although looking quite similar,…
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In the first chapter of Graphesis, Johanna Drucker explores the evolution of people's perception and use of graphics throughout history. She states early in the passage that "images have a history, but so do concepts of vision and these are embedded in the attitudes of their times and cultures as…
Intro -> Image, Interpretation, and Interface -> WindowsThrough the first section of her book, Drucker provides us with a crash course in the evolution of visual imagery as a legitimate form of communication design. She highlights how, from the beginning, design has been fighting to be taken seriously…
Summary of Chapter & ResponseIn this chapter, Drucker provides us with some historical context on the evolution of data visualization from its beginnings. Though Drucker's writing can be quite dense, she is able to apply scientific concepts to historical concepts. Key topics discussed within this chapter:The theoretical study of…
One of the points that arose in the first chapter of Drucker’s “Graphesis” that I found interesting was the idea of using computers to draw or present information in graphical form. Specifically, Harold Cohen's work with AARON, in which he worked out a systematic approach to visual composition, is…
While reading the first chapter of Graphesis by Johanna Drucker, a specific work caught my eyes. It is The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones. First published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament is a folio consists of systematic presentation of ornaments, motifs and patterns of different cultures all over…
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 Chapter 1, Drucker (2014), outlines the work of Anton Stankoski's Visual Presentation of Invisible Process: How to Illustrate Invisible Process in Graphic Design (1967) when discussing the movement of the universal principles of design that started to emerge in the late nineteenth century.First a little about Anton Stankowski…
Exercise 2: Final projects Group critique of your work Assignment Reading #3 from Graphesis Post your response and additional research with the tag ‘R3’ before the start of class Presentations by Mikaela & Simone and Caitlyn & Christian…
Graphesis by Johanna Drucker Read the frontmatter and first chapter: Image, Interpretation, and Interface. Also consult the relevant 'plates' in the Windows section. Pick one of the works cited in the chapter to investigate and collect some imagery and/or context to be included in your write-up. Take your pick…
The author emphases the importance of using intuitive colors when creating visualization projects, which I have found more difficult when representing qualitative or categorical data using different colors. It seems like our human eyes start to perceive different colors when the number reaches a certain ceiling. I once saw a…
Exercise 2 Small group meetings and in-class work session Assignment Choose one of your three directions to develop and create a completed version of it Using either the external data source you collected or a dataset collected by one of your classmates incorporate at least one additional variable into your…
Robert Simmon is a data visualizer for NASA, so his primary output of work is within the Earth and natural sciences. In this series of essays, he writes about color theory and the various considerations one must make before beginning to visualize data. The first thing he did was introduce…
I had a lot of fun reading Robert Simmon's Subtleties of Color, especially through the perspective of a scientist. I used to work in a retina neuroscience lab, and although our specialty was not in phototransduction or visual components of the circuit, I appreciated seeing the field of visual neuroscience…
Presentations Felix on Otto Neurath Janice on Stamen D’hana on Tufte’s Envisioning Information Daniel on Charles Joseph Minard Reading #2 on the use of color for quantitative & qualitative values Assignment Exercise 2 Add sketches to process subdirectory and describe each of your three concepts (as well as…
Exercise 2: Mapping Quantities, Categories, and Summarized Data For this second exercise, we'll be examining a simple time-series dataset: the history of nuclear testing by the eight (declared) nuclear nations. In the first phase of this project we will consider only the total number of test explosions across three dimensions:…
In his blog series, The Subtleties of Color, Robert Simon asserts that the main purpose of data visualization is to make connections and highlight relationships that may be difficult to identify using large amounts of numbers. Throughout the series, Simon analyzes various types of data as well as their preferred…
'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…
I'm starting writing having completed the video and before reading through the blog posts. I loved the video. Robert Simmon manages to disrupt so much of what I though I knew about color. Like him, I'm not a color expert but his approach to the use of color - the…
Subtleties of Color Robert Simmon discussed the importance of using color schemes in data visualizations and what makes the color scheme "perfect". Before choosing the color scheme, it's important to know the type of dataset that we want to translate. According to Simmon there are many types of data, each…
I enjoyed this weeks reading a lot, because of it’s amazing overview over the different aspects of how to treat color in data visualizations. I liked how Robert Simmons manages to contextualize his experience with color but always makes his main points about design practice. The most important learning…
I watched Robert Simmon’s “Subtleties of Color” presentation at OpenVis Conference. Even though Simmon focused on color in his talk, I think he made some nice overarching comments on data visualization in general. I particularly liked when he said the purpose of data visualization is to illuminate data, showing…
In his 6 part series, Robert Simmon's approaches colour use in visualizations with intuitive explanations and examples. Colour is incredibly important to the visualization process, as Simmon's illustrates - the goal of data visualization is to illuminate data and essentially show patterns/relationships that may have otherwise been hidden. Careful…
In his blog series and video talk on encoding data through color, Robert Simmon makes a strong case for strategic uses of color in visualizations based on how humans perceive color– both technically and culturally. As we learn, this often means throwing away the rainbow scale in favor of a…