Nothing profound here today. Below are some stories that I’ve come across recently that I thought were interesting.:
- A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians – As paper trails fade, digital material grows in size and complexity
- The World of Seinfeld Visualization – A visualization of connections among characters on the popular television show.
- Great Information Visualization Tool – VUE – A visual tool that provides multiple ways to arrange, sort and manipulate information.
- Scary Verdict – Hosts Hit With $32 Million Infringement Verdict.
- Shaking the “Pretty Picture” Stigma – An excellent opinion piece, I quote from the first paragraph.
Coming from the academic and computer science side of visualization, I always assumed that it would be self-evident to anybody that visualization is first and foremost useful, and only happens to also produce nice pictures. Alas, this is not actually the case. To most people, visualization means pretty pictures first, and maybe also a fact or two. We have to fight that or risk the trivialization and marginalization of visualization as an analytic tool.
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