Winning Ways for Your Visualization Plays
summary
Argues that layout choices materially change interpretation, demonstrates how aspect ratio, color maps and projections mislead and how Mercator distortion vs cartograms reshapes mental maps, shows concrete builds: compositing image blending operators that preserve contrast and a Grapeshot and IBM news analysis service that models source influence, and offers practical tool choices (Illustrator for design, Mathematica for parametric reproduction) with examples that actually work rather than abstract rules.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Visual communication intro
- 1:25History of info viz
- 3:11Hockey stick graph power
- 4:39Aspect ratio and data
- 8:18Map projections and distortions
- 10:51Cartograms and data
- 12:00Why numbers fail
- 14:13Limits of stats and box plots
- 15:59Human perception in viz
- 17:25Perceptual illusions in viz
- 21:24Designing for non-readers
- 23:32Color and transparency
- 24:59Science of transparency layers
- 27:51Visual metaphors for news
- 28:34Point clouds to constellations
- 30:04Structured data in text editors
- 31:31Simplifying graph connections
- 33:00Secret to great info viz
- 34:30Future of visualization
- 37:16Q&A
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