Category Archives: information aesthetics

NOIR, FILM: Information Aesthetic Meta-Representational Considerations

31st
Jan. × ’10
By andrea
Okay, so I know it’s naff, but for five years, the only way I’ve ever remembered Stevens’ On The Theory of Scale and Measurement is by the mnemonic NOIR: Nominal (named/categorised): apples, oranges, pears Ordinal (ordered): small, medium, large Interval (measured): the interval between 2:30pm and 3:00pm is the same as the interval between 10:30am and 11:00am Ratio (measured, [...]
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Postdecode – Australian Zipdecode

5th
Nov. × ’09
By andrea
I was going to do something for MashUp Australia and then got sidetracked, and decided to apply Ben Fry’s zipdecode to Australian postcodes. (After seeing that it’s been done for Germany and Switzerland). The data isn’t quite complete (there are about 300 missing suburbs that didn’t have matching postcodes in the data file I got from [...]
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Honours Thesis

5th
Nov. × ’09
By andrea
Had a request for my honours thesis from @itsgoodtoseeyou so here it is. Honours Thesis – Information Aesthetics – A Model and Evaluation of Information Aesthetics in Information Visualisation I don’t know why it doesn’t render properly in Preview; it just doesn’t… And, yes, I’ve done this in lieu of blogging anything the last two weeks. Blergh.
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Information Aesthetics: Closer to Art or Design?

14th
Oct. × ’09
By andrea
Was pondering the other day after seeing ‘The Difference Between Art and Design‘, which listed five points: Good Art Inspires. Good Design Motivates. Good Art Is Interpreted. Good Design Is Understood. Good Art Is a Taste. Good Design Is an Opinion. Good Art Is a Talent. Good Design Is a Skill. Good Art Sends a Different Message to Everyone. Good [...]
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Thoughts on Kyoto: Who’s On Target from Information is Beautiful

9th
Oct. × ’09
By andrea
If you haven’t seen it already, Information is Beautiful posted a wonderful inforgraphic the other day on the Kyoto Protocal Targets. (I’ll just reproduce a fragment here). I KNOW! I did diss Information is Beautiful previously, but I like this one. (Which is odd, because there are comments about readability). It shows how the design decision to [...]
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The Epitome of Information Aesthetics (according to A. Lau)

29th
Sep. × ’09
By andrea
What are the ‘best’ or most representative examples of information aesthetics visualisation? It of course depends on your definition! So, first thing’s first: here was mine/our definition*: Between the information visualisation research and visualisation art communities lies the emerging phenomenon of information aesthetics. Information aesthetics is proposed as a field which adopts visualisation techniques exhibiting both informational [...]
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Why The Outliers Is Here #5: Let’s define the norms.

22nd
Sep. × ’09
By andrea
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 [...]
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Why The Outliers Is Here #3: Someone needs to make stuff and explain it.

18th
Sep. × ’09
By andrea
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 #1: Fighting On Our Territory

16th
Sep. × ’09
By andrea
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!)
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