Trimmed version of the presentation given in New York on Thursday 16th May. Also essentially the same slide deck presented at the IDA Talks event in London on Wednesday 8th May.
14. Getting visualisation right is
much more a science than an art,
which we can only achieve by
studying human perception.
Stephen Few
http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/data_visualization_for_human_perception.html
15. A visualization is more effective
than another visualization if
the information conveyed by one
visualization is more readily
perceived than the information in
the other visualization.
Jock Mackinlay
http://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs448b/f10/lectures/CS448B-20100923-DataAndImageModels.pdf
24. Jacques Bertin, ‘Semiologie Graphique’, 1967
Cleveland & McGill, ‘Graphical Perception: Theory, experimentation and application to the development of graphical methods’”, 1984
Theoretical ancestry
30. I'm just seeing what I basically
know... But I felt it in a way I never
had before. You can feel a good
data visualization.
Amanda Cox
http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/hbreditors/2013/03/power_of_visualizations_aha_moment.html
31. Mapping America: Every City, Every Block | New York Times
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer
32. I have this fear that we aren’t
feeling enough.
Chris Jordan, TED Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f09lQ8Q1iKE&feature=youtu.be&t=5m11s
33. Running the Numbers II: Portraits of Global Mass Culture | Chris Jordan
http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn2/#gyre2
94. When I'm working on a problem,
I never think about beauty.
I think only how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
http://www.quotes.net/quote/7377