Meetup2017 visualization & aesthetic

questions about visualization...

Santiago Data Visualization Meetup

Some questions about visualization...

aesthetics, function, form, representation, culture...

Ricardo Vega M. Santago, Chile, 2017 www.ricardov.cl | @ricardov_cl https://issuu.com/ricardov_net

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Visualization, Data?

Different disciplines: Information Design, broad field: Wayfnding, infographics, Videographics...

image: Transantiago Project. DET, PUC. http://www.det.cl

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Visualization, Data?

Different historic phenomena: - Cuantification of reality. “Measure of reality” Alfred Crosby.

- Age of budreaucracy. “Control Revolution”. JAmes R. Beniger.

- Complexification of reality. Warren Weaver. http://people.physics.anu.edu.au/~tas110/Teaching/Lectures/L1/Material/WEAVER1947.pdf

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Visualization, Data?

Data visualization: What do we talk about when we talk about it?.

Data: new oil, data everywhere - data fetichism.

It is about data? or is about problems of representation.

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Visualization, Data?

Visualization: visual, strong semantic load.

It is about vision only? blind people, can visualize?

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Visualization, Data?

Q: Do we need another word, better than visualization?

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What is the purpose of data visualization?

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“The power of the mind without help is highly overrated.

Without external help, memory, thought and reasoning are restricted, but human intelligence is highly flexible and adaptable, brilliant inventing procedures and objects that exceed their own limits. Real power comes

What is the purpose of data visualization?

from the invention of aids that reinforce our cognitive abilities ...

How have we increased memory, thought and reasoning?

By the invention of external aids: are the things that make us smarter“.

Donald Norman. Things That Make Us Smart, 1993

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What is the purpose of data visualization?

Infoviz Diagram. Yuri Engelhardt (Amsterdam) & Juan Carlos DĂźrsteler (Barcelona) http://yuriengelhardt.com/

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What is the purpose of data visualization?

Q: Beyond its funcionality, Data visualization is valuable for creating an aesthetic experience? imagen: Fligh Patterns http://www.aaronkoblin.com/ work/flightpatterns/

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What are the forms of visualization?

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What are the forms of visualization?

Types of representation.

Andrew van der Moere & Andrea Lau. paper: Towards a Model of Information Aesthetics in Information Visualization. http://infoscape.org/publications/iv07.pdf

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What are the forms of visualization?

New technologies carries previous technologies as a content.

Cinema contains theater, Cars contains carriages... etc.

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What are the forms of visualization?

The Anti-Sublime Ideal in Data Art. Lev Manovich.

We need to find new forms.

The forms we use belongs to historic vanguards.

Paper: “La vanguardia como Software�. https://www.uoc.edu/artnodes/espai/esp/art/manovich1002/manovich1002.html

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What are the forms of visualization?

Q: New concepts and ideas, require new forms for representation?

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Who is exploring this new forms nowadays?

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Who is exploring this new forms nowadays?

Metaphor. Edward Tufte vs Nigel Holmes.

Paper: “The Chartjunk Debate A Close Examination of Recent Findings�. https://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_ business_intelligence/the_chartjunk_debate.pdf

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Who is exploring this new forms nowadays?

Science: Infinity (Thomas Digges), James Clerck Maxwell...

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Who is exploring this new forms nowadays?

Art, design: Stephanie Posavec (Air transformed), http://www.stefanieposavec.co.uk/data/#/airtransformed/

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Who is exploring this new forms nowadays?

Civic and Data Journalism: Mapping America: Every City, Every Block http://www.nytimes.com/projects/census/2010/explorer.html

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Who is exploring this new forms nowadays?

Text visualization: Sosolimited.

Reconstitution. https://www.sosolimited.com/work/reconstitution-2012/

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Who is exploring this new forms nowadays?

Videographics: Kurzgesagt. http://kurzgesagt.org/ PlayAcademy...

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Who is exploring this new forms nowadays?

Physical visualization: Jose Duarte. http://www.handmadevisuals.com/

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Who is exploring this new forms nowadays?

What is next?

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Closing...

So, information Visualization Data visualization, A field open to exploration

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thanks @ricardov_cl https://issuu.com/ricardov_net

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