An old saying 'a picture is worth a thousand words' is a really valid statement solidifying the term 'visualisation' from its representation of clusters of elements such as dots, lines, colours etc.
They are like artworks combined the concepts of interestingness, interaction and design. There are some fantastic infosthetics in the following site: http://infosthetics.com/
Despite the fact that data visualisations are quite appealing to us from its visual presentation, they are increasingly becoming ubiquitous within visual culture because occasionally it can involve storytelling, as in seeing them as an assumption that they 'speak' for themselves from the construction being made. Visualisation, in a deeper sense, is an expression to turn the abstractive, conceptual subjects into a concrete meaning by presenting in infographics. So what can we see through our growing visibility of data?
THE ENGAGEMENT
Yes, it's our engagement, an imaginative engagement with pictures that we do not normally have, it rhetorically questions in the act of how our relationship with images is formed from what we can project on them. For instance, the dashed line, which is to represent the borders but more importantly, it could be put in an image of visual procedure, plays a role as an instructor teaching us how we manipulate some places or letting us to collect the trace so we know how we can operate on certain devices. Hence, it supplies a more intricate visual detail so that it functions in a way of making the picture more expressive. It inevitably breaks down the limitation of our ability to make an association between the action being built up through our brain and the comprehension goes beyond what the images are conventionally presented. It's more of an enthusiasm, or an obsession to discover our sense of resonance in the process, which is to make invisible to be visible. Timo has given us a lot of examples illustrating the dashed line can be symbolized as hidden geometry, movement, paths, ephemeral material.
Moreover, the dashed line could be the (there you go, this is the dashed line)......................... expectation.
The dashed line here carries a role of representing an instruction
Moreover, the dashed line could be the (there you go, this is the dashed line)......................... expectation.
you may not notice that dashed line is immersed in your life, even when you are waiting to open a page, the screen will show: OPENING THE PAGE........... ; or when you are going to watch a video, it says LOADING......
THE CONCRETE NUMBER
Visualisation is also about the way the numbers are displayed. In some cases such as the measurement of how many calories are contained within certain amount of food, as for calories, a unit, is an unspecified term cannot be represented graphically, the resemblance is able to give us an idea of the entity through the display of variety of food. Other examples such as the massive amount of tweets and the web pages on the internet, all these concepts can only be generated through firmly fixed on the visual landscape of social media. Number is needed to take another form to reveal the reality, and that should be clearly, succinctly and above all quickly presented to have impact. Hence, through visualisation, one of its excellent aims is to give the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space. (Yale University Professor Emeritus Edward Tufte)
THE CONSCIOUSNESS
Also the visualisation is not just simply about getting the information but what we can do with this information, what reflection it makes, how it affects us socially and changes our behaviour towards it. The effectiveness has something to do with how it alters our perceptions of what we believe from what social data looks like. Mostly, social data from visualisation makes it even authoritative than a text, as it can prompt responses more instant, like a part of a conversation to the audience, rather than being a stand-alone statement. The meaning behind can be an inference from the question preceding it, and the question is raised up in the way we interpret either positive or negative from our visibility. Through visualisation, it builds upon the understanding as a social act, a form of behaviour, a current trend that we all need to take concern with, just a typical example such as by looking at the data of a map in Amazon, you can see where the cluster of lines is most dense in an infographic, so to make a more accurate assumption of which books are more popular and well known and subsequently predicting what kind of books can be more sellable in this trend. To visualise the data, with each value representing an icon, and a line representing an association between each value, our consciousness will become much more active from the transparency.
So after we are encouraged to engage with the data image, find out the data sources and make sense of them, ultimately to evoke our consciousness from what we have seen, we are fulfilled of this kind of streamline visual metaphor. This entire process goes in a cause and effect relationship from our eyes, it's amazing to know that these visual creation is often uncanny in aesthetic, and that this artistic practices have contributed all these implication to information visualisation when a picture can unite all the collectives and extend its subjectivity within the simplicity, what else can be more articulate?
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This is the website of information, the lines, dots, the formation of the shape geometrically and implicitly hint at the concept of 'numbers' in this case, the pattern is beautifully highlighting the importance of visualisation
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Also the visualisation is not just simply about getting the information but what we can do with this information, what reflection it makes, how it affects us socially and changes our behaviour towards it. The effectiveness has something to do with how it alters our perceptions of what we believe from what social data looks like. Mostly, social data from visualisation makes it even authoritative than a text, as it can prompt responses more instant, like a part of a conversation to the audience, rather than being a stand-alone statement. The meaning behind can be an inference from the question preceding it, and the question is raised up in the way we interpret either positive or negative from our visibility. Through visualisation, it builds upon the understanding as a social act, a form of behaviour, a current trend that we all need to take concern with, just a typical example such as by looking at the data of a map in Amazon, you can see where the cluster of lines is most dense in an infographic, so to make a more accurate assumption of which books are more popular and well known and subsequently predicting what kind of books can be more sellable in this trend. To visualise the data, with each value representing an icon, and a line representing an association between each value, our consciousness will become much more active from the transparency.
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| This is a friendship network of children in a US school, the data was collected by asking the participants who their friends are. It directly shows how the social relation is happening in the school when races and ages are marked by the use of different colours. From this illustration, it explicitly tells us more than it just shows, it isn't just about the interaction between each of them.What we might notice more is the four dots that are being ostracized from anyone of the groups on the left hand side of this data visualisation, many factors can be the cause of their isolation and therefore, the schools should be have more awareness of them. In this aspect I just mentioned, a data visualisation has the possibility leading us to think out of the border. |
So after we are encouraged to engage with the data image, find out the data sources and make sense of them, ultimately to evoke our consciousness from what we have seen, we are fulfilled of this kind of streamline visual metaphor. This entire process goes in a cause and effect relationship from our eyes, it's amazing to know that these visual creation is often uncanny in aesthetic, and that this artistic practices have contributed all these implication to information visualisation when a picture can unite all the collectives and extend its subjectivity within the simplicity, what else can be more articulate?
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