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DensityDesign Research Lab

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Donato Ricci

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some take aways i 1

Visualization is part of our culture

i 2

Its purpose is insight, not pictures

i3 It is a tool but also a medium

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i3 Visualization is a tool but also a medium ia (tool for understanding)

It make available some perceptually unavailable space.

ib (medium for communication) It make available normally invisible relations between perceptually available points.

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Induction - Deduction - Abduction

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What are Information Visualization Tools? Computer-based* systems designed to display visually* encoded data in order to support the process of information visualization. * usually

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What are Information Visualization Tools? Computer-based* systems designed to display visually* encoded data in order to support the process of information visualization. * usually

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What is Information Visualization? (def. 1)

The use of computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of abstract data to amplify cognition. i

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What is Information Visualization? (def. 1)

The use of computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of abstract data to amplify cognition. i

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What is Information Visualization? (def. 2)

Show me the data! i

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What is Information Visualization? (def. 3) [something] based

on (non-visual) data that produce an image readable and recognizable. i

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What is Information Visualization? (def. 3) [something] based

on (non-visual) data that produce an image readable and recognizable. i

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What is Information Visualization? (def. 4 - a designerly based perspective)

to (re)present and communicate social* phenomena. *mostly

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(phenomenon)

data

visualization

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designer (phenomenon)

data

visualization

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designer phenomenon

visualization

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designer phenomenon

visualization

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designer phenomenon

designer visualization

data

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Integrity

INFORMATION

Relevance

Form

DESIGN Function

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Integrity

INFORMATION

Form

Relevance

DESIGN Function

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formal approach

expressive approach

high formalization

low formalization

low expressive potential

high expressive potential

strong scientific rigor

weak rigor

ability of synthesis lack of qualities | abstraction

mantains qualities ambiguity | engagement

lack of qualities

ambiguity

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formal approach

expressive approach

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formal approach

expressive approach

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formal approach

expressive approach

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formal approach

expressive approach

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narrator 1. a person who tells a story or gives an account of something

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the designer as a narrator

(re)presentation

argument analysis formal approach

rhetoric

drama

visualization expressive approach

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Integrity

INFORMATION

Relevance

DESIGN Function

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Great data visualization tells a great story.

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Great data visualization tells a great story.

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Great data visualization tells a great story. Great data can produce a great argument. Data can be boring. (if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for -from the goal to the argument-)

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Great data visualization tells a great story. Great data can produce a great argument. Data can be boring. Great arguments can produce a great story.

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Great arguments can produce a great story. i1 Makes us question our assumptions i2 Touches us, connects to our humanity i3 Compels us to action i4 Enlightens us, brings a new realization

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A great argument i1 Show the data

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A great argument i1 Show the data i1 Keep the evidencies alive

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A great argument i1 Keep the evidencies alive i2 Make large data sets coherent

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A great argument i1 Keep the evidencies alive i2 Make large data sets coherent i2 Make a reasoning process coherent

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A great argument i1 Keep the evidencies alive i2 Make a reasoning process coherent i3 Encourage the eye to compare different pieces of data

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A great argument i1 Keep the evidencies alive i2 Make a reasoning process coherent i3 Encourage the eye to compare different pieces of data

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A great argument i1 Keep the evidencies alive i2 Make a reasoning process coherent i3 Encourage to compare different pieces of reality i4 Avoid distorting what the data have to say

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A great argument i1 Keep the evidencies alive i2 Make a reasoning process coherent i3 Encourage to compare different pieces of reality i4 Avoid distorting what the data have to say

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A great argument i1 Keep the evidencies alive i2 Make a reasoning process coherent i3 Encourage to compare different pieces of reality i4 Avoid distorting what the data have to say i5 Serve a reasonably clear purpose

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A great argument i1 Keep the evidencies alive i2 Make a reasoning process coherent i3 Encourage to compare different pieces of reality i4 Seduces and induce to see with the narratorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes

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Great data can produce a great argument.

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Can data be a seductive material in the same way as stone, wood, metal are seductive for designer? “It’s imperative that we learn to investigate data as a material in a critiacal and designerly way - as we would with physical materials”

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Visual Bootstrapping aka material exploration aka sketching with data

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Bootstrapping to perform an operation to enable the development of successively more complex ones

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Material exploration Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s available | significant | interesting | feasible Where are the anchor points? What does it afford?

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Sketching Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s available | significant | interesting | feasible Where are the anchor points? What does it afford?

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Beetween the thought and the thing there is a sketch

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Beetween the thought and the thing there is a sketch, not a prototype

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sketch

prototype

evocative

didactic

suggest

describe

explore

refine

question

answer

propose

test

provoke

resolve

tentative

specific

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Mazesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; maps are labyrinth in other words

i1 find you way - the argument i2 map it - the story i3 put it into practice - the drama

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a take aways (why to bootstrap | explore | sketch) to avoid 6 failure in the information visualization process through 6 phylosophers

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i1 Inability to ask

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i1 Inability to ask i2 Inability to label

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i1 Inability to ask i2 Inability to label i3 Inability to model

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i1 i2 i3 i4

Inability to ask Inability to label Inability to model Inability to decompose

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i1 i2 i3 i4 i5

Inability to ask Inability to label Inability to model Inability to decompose Inability to measure

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i1 i2 i3 i4 i5 i6

Inability to ask Inability to label Inability to model Inability to decompose Inability to measure Inability to recompose

RepresentaĂ§ĂŁo e Conhecimento Aveiro, 27th September 2011

DensityDesign Research Lab

I mean? 01 - Argumentations do you see what

www.densitydesign.org #densitydesign cc by-nc-sa

Donato Ricci