Cultural Visualization – Counting the Winter Away
All visualizations are actually cultural artifacts. Saying that a scatter plot or a Treemap is cultural however is not particularly meaningful or resonating to members within the western culture. Our...
View ArticleTelling stories using visualizations vs. Analyzing data using visualizations:...
1. Telling stories using visualization – visual primacy It is almost impossible to talk about InfoVis without mentioning Tufte. His four books beautifully illustrate how to explain and present complex...
View ArticleReplies to a fictitious skeptic
Q: All these terms, mental models, schemas, coordination, etc. they are pretty fuzzy and not definite. I believe that to understand how InfoVis works we must understand how the brain works. A: First,...
View ArticleActivity Theory: Mediation
Activity theory, like distributed cognition, is another theoretical framework that is familiar to many of us, and has been used in HCI research. The more I read about activity theory, the more I feel...
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