Envisioning Information

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• Small multiples, whether tabular or pictorial, move to the heart of visual reasoning - to see, distinguish, choose (查看原文)

  龙吟 2赞 2016-09-16 18:08:45

• We envision information in order to reason about, communicate, document, and preserve that knowledge-activities nearly always carried out on two-dimensional paper and computer screen. Escaping this flatland and enriching the density of data displays are the essential tasks of information design. Such escapes grow more difficult as ties of data to our familiar three-space world weaken and as the number of dimensions increases. Still, all the history of information displays and statistical graphics-indeed of any communication device-is entirely a progress of methods for enhancing density, complexity, dimensionality, and even sometimes beauty. Some of these methods, identified and described in the chapters that follow, include micro/macro ridings of detail and panorama, layering and separatio... (查看原文)

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