Colours

The lecture of Robert Simmon, a lead visualizer for the Nasa Earth Observatory, did not leave any questions unanswered. It demonstrated and answered questions regarding use of colours in a very scientific way. This is helpful for me. As a graphic designer I use a lot of "rules" demonstrated by…

Looking at data

Kierann Healy’s chapter »Looking at Data« is a helpful and profound base which helps to familiarize with the fundamentals of Data Visualization. Especially Healy’s clear structure and classification into 3 categories is an important support to get an overview; from which one can dive deeper into more details…

Chernoff Faces

About The chernoff faces method (invented by Hermann Chernoff in 1973) can be used to visualize multi-dimensional values. Thus instead of a visualizing a single value and its expressions, multiple different values can be displayed and/or researched. As the name implies, the method uses the human face and its…