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Representação e Conhecimento Aveiro, 27th September 2011

DensityDesign Research Lab

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

Donato Ricci

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to the north

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to the north

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People have always tried to visually organize phenomena that weren’t readily explicable

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trying to give a meaning to the data available

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thanks to the tools they developed

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conceiving and re-conceiving visual models

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conceiving and re-conceiving visual models

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an example

Representations of the earth have undergone many changes throughout the centuries.

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Sometimes they were a reflection of political or religious influences.

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Every representation has been based on the tools of observation available at that time.

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All kinds of visualization have a shared goal: to make sense of reality

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the Quipu system

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Nicole Oresme

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Tractatus de configuratione qualitatum et motuum

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William Henry Playfair

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The Commerical and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary

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Luigi Perozzo Della rappresentazione graphica di una collettivitĂ di individui nella successione del tempo

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Henry Tanner Heights Of The Principal Mountains In The World

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John Tukey

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Exploratory data analysis (the full story - datavis.ca/milestones)

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Martin Wattenberg among the others

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visual explorations of culturally significant data

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Information Overload

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Information Overload Abundance & Wealth

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reducing complication Visual representations are methods to condense observed phenomena

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respecting complexities Visual synthesis cannot use a reductive approach, generating partial and fragmented models

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i1 Visualization is part of our culture i2 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 media 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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Visualizations as a process / transformation

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Visualizations as a process / transformation

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Visualizations as a process / transformation

Italy 144.084,36 Austria 106.583,40 Holland 86.125,56 Germany 84.108 Irland 82.065,96 Great Britain 81.600 Belgium 72.017,52 Denmark 69.264 Greece 68.575 Luxemburg 66.432,60 France 62.779,44 Finlandi 59.640 Sweden 57.000 Slovenia 50.400 Cyprus 48.960 Portugal 41.387,64 Spain 35.051,90 Slovakia 25.920 Czech Republic 24.180 Estonia 23.064 Malta 15.768 Lithuania 14.196 Latvia 12.900 Ungary 9.132 Poland 7.369,70

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Visualizations as a process / transformation

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Representação e Conhecimento Aveiro, 27th September 2011

DensityDesign Research Lab

do you see what

I mean?

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

Donato Ricci