Design For Information by Isabel Meirelles
Isochronic distances from London to the rest of the world
1914
Il Mondo Contemporaneo
Reading notes.
Design for Information: An introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices behind effective information visualizations (Rockport, 2013) offers an integrative approach to learning basic methods and graphical principles for the visual presentation of information. The book surveys current visualizations that are analyzed for their content (information) as well as for their methods of presentation and design strategies (design). The objective is to provide readers with critical and analytical tools that can benefit the design process of visualizing data. While the book targets design students, it can be helpful to students in other disciplines involved with visualizing information, such as those in the (digital) humanities and in most of the sciences. My intention was to represent all disciplines in the book by including content and authors from diverse disciplines. It is my hope that the book will help broaden the dialogue and reduce the gap between two communities —designers and scientists— and foster problem-solving skills in designing for information. * * --- * Design for Information Isabel Meirelles Rockport Publishers (2013) 8 - English route maps -> strip form (1675) 8 - French train schedule -> graph overlay (1885) 9 - London Tube Map (1933) 9 - "Design Lexicon" context of visualizing information 18 - hierarchical structures /// trees /// hierarchy 22 - pre-attentive features -> 5 tasks and on page 23 a list of 16 22 - conjunction searches 30 - tree maps -> page 32 has four common layout options 35 - comparison of graphical representations of quantiles 45 - Voronoi treemaps 47 - relational structures /// networks /// graphs 48 - graph theory 49 - bipartite graphs or two-mode or affiliation network (sociology) 49 - also the corresponding one-mode projections of bipartite graphs 51 - directed 62 - most common types of network layouts 66 - alluvial diagram 70 - Sankey diagrams - flow diagrams 83 - temporal structures /// time /// timelines 88 - uniform timelines 93 - first bar graph 94 - cyclic / polar graph 104 - history flows 109 - streamgraph method 115 - spatial structures /// maps /// relative positions 116 - thematic maps 118 - map projections 121 & 123 - map scale 124 - visual encoding 129 - visual illusions 130 - dot distributions maps 130 - nomograph 138 - graduated symbol maps 141 - scaling of symbols -> proportional to area 142 - choropleth maps 148 - isometric and isopleth maps 152 - flow & network maps 156 - area & distance maps 159 - spatio-temporal structures 161 - *** - "Isochronic passage chart for travelers" (1881) days from London 162 - space-time cube 163 - Minard's 1869 "Napolen's march to and from Russia 1812-1813" 167 - isochrone lines 171 - West-Road from London to Bristol (1676) - towns and positioned text & with distances… 180 - trajectories 182 - clustering trajectories 185 - textual structures /// language /// words /// documents 189 - lexical, syntatctic, semantic 193 - typographic elements 194 - word cloud 204 - data types: nominal, ordinal & quantitative [Sidebars] 19 - proximity 33 - closure 51 - similarity 58 - good continuation 97 - magical number seven 126 - segregation between figure & ground 129 - relative judgments of perception 141 - making meaningful groups 145 - luminance illusions 146 - selecting color schemes 187 - nominal data
