The reading for this week gave us the opportunity to reflect on the the importance of the usage of color and the relation it has for »
The text discussed for this occasion approach the effectiveness of communicating quantitative information and the recommended process to create visual representations of data. Across the multiple »
In the introductory chapter of his book, Lev Manovich discusses the presence, importance and multiplication of software in our societies. By giving a substantial list of »
For her final entry in the book, Drucker sets her sights into more contemporary uses of information visualizations and takes us into a historical tour of »
In this chapter Drucker expands the distinction that she made in the first pages of the book by comparing Athanasius Kircher's visualization with Ramon Lull's "great »
In the first chapter of Graphesis, Johanna Drucker presents us a thorough introduction to the realm of "visual epistemology" by exploring its history and developments. The »
A heat map is a map that uses color or some other features to show an additional dimension, for instance a weather map depicting bands of »