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 same. Sure, there’s overlap, but they don’t follow the same rules. Let’s find the goal posts for information aesthetics, who we should listen to, (who we shouldn’t), and what we should be aspiring to be doing.
* I had actually titled this post ‘Let’s challenge the accepted norms’…but then I realised that there are not ‘accepted’ ‘norms’ in information aesthetics. dur!
* I promise this is my last meta-post.
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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 same. Sure, there’s overlap, but they don’t follow the same rules. Let’s find the goal posts for information aesthetics, who we should listen to, (who we shouldn’t), and what we should be aspiring to be doing.
* I had actually titled this post ‘Let’s challenge the accepted norms’…but then I realised that there are not ‘accepted’ ‘norms’ in information aesthetics. dur!
* I promise this is my last meta-post.