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Why The Outliers Is Here #5: Let’s define the norms.
Is Wattenberg’s Baby Name Voyager really that good? (Yes. Find out why in a future post).
Should we really listen to everyone in information visualisation? (Er, no. I guess that’s another post!)
What’s more, the accepted norms in information aesthetics really hasn’t been defined. Information visualisation has been around for yolks. The two fields are not the [...]
Why The Outliers Is Here #4: Less is more. Let’s reduce the information load, not increase it.
It’s a little counter-intuitive, I know (with all of us creating craploads of digital/physical/neurological… data a day), but bear with me.
It’s about moving up the data-to-wisdom hierarchy, not across it.
Let’s say that each visualisation project is a data point. Currently, some visualisation blogs out there reproduce data, ie: infosthetics and visual complexity, which is fine, [...]
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Why The Outliers Is Here #3: Someone needs to make stuff and explain it.
I mean in the context of information aesthetics. There’s a lot of great work out there like eigenfactor that is fantastically documented, but 1. not many works like of that quality exist and 2. not many works in general are documented well.
The problem is that most of the people who make so-called information aesthetic visualisation [...]
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Why The Outliers Is Here #2: There aren’t (m)any female visualisation bloggers.
And there should be, in this field, really.
I mean, think about it. Information aesthetics is about engagement, narrative, emotions, thinking about multiple things concurrently. Women are best at these things, not men! So why are the men talking about it?! I dunno. =)
Not, of course, discounting Fernanda Viegas and others.
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Why The Outliers Is Here #1: Fighting On Our Territory
There are a few reasons why The Outliers needs to be here. And I want to be quite frank about this.
I’ll be posting five points (starting with most important) for the next week or two. (Also coming up is a post about Graphic Presentation once the book arrives!! woop!)
The Epitome of Information Aesthetics (according to A. Lau)