Why The Outliers Is Here #4: Less is more. Let’s reduce the information load, not increase it.

21stSep. × ’09

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.

data_to_wisdom

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, because they provide a great one-stop-shop for (almost!) every datavis project ever done. (There is, however, information found in the categorisation of these projects).

On the other hand, you have Flowing Data, which moves up the hierarchy a little by presenting lists, grouping relevant visualisations, and introducing extra information not present in the data.

I’ll try my best to bring information, insights and knowledge rather than data.

*an illustration of data to wisdom.

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3 Comments

  1. Posted September 21, 2009 at 12:39 | Permalink

    How many more posts before you start blogging? ;)

  2. andrea
    Posted September 21, 2009 at 12:45 | Permalink

    one more. I promise.

  3. Posted September 22, 2009 at 14:08 | Permalink

    ha, i was thinking the same thing :)

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