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By: Shaking the “Pretty Picture” Stigma | eagereyes

Shaking the “Pretty Picture” Stigma | eagereyes — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 06:39:15 +0000

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Data kan ook niet saai zijn! | — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:57:15 +0000

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Shaking the “Pretty Picture” Stigma « WebGlide — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:10:24 +0000

By: Arturas

Arturas — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:29:19 +0000

I believe that the perfect would to get both, but sadly we don not live in a perfect world ))) Though i believe that the trend for customizable dashboards and charts will last for a long time

By: Arturas

Arturas — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:29:00 +0000

I believe that the perfect would to get both, but sadly we don not live in a perfect world ))) Though i believe that the trend for customizable dashboards and charts will last for a long time

By: Scientific Visualizations on TED on Datavisualization.ch

Scientific Visualizations on TED on Datavisualization.ch — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:21:03 +0000

[...] Peter Gassner discussed in his article earlier this year such visualizations have a different goal in communicating data. Although it is [...]

By: travc

travc — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:15:04 +0000

Preach it brother ;)

As one of those ‘scientists’, I can attest that visualization is not accepted to support results very often. As Jan points out, statistics is the primary tool. That said, visualization is critical in exploring the data and more and more frequently, explaining it and why the statistical analysis makes sense. This isn’t fair of course, since many types of visualizations *are* presenting the results of statistical tests.

I’d also like to complain a bit about the reluctance amoung scientists to accept new visualization techniques. It makes sense, familiar methods are more trusted and the readers have trained their brains to understand them at a glance. Still, even very simple changes to objectively better and more informative presentations are resisted. Not a ‘visualization’ in the narrow sense, but every time I see a box plot I want to throw something.

By: travc

travc — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:15:00 +0000

Preach it brother ;)

By: Marcin Ignac

Marcin Ignac — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:05:42 +0000

Hi! Recently I was thinking about the same issue. Is Data Visualization a way of story telling, exploration, or expression? Depending on which of this aspects you want to focus on it can be anything from a tool to ‘infoporn’. And of course nobody forbids you from mixing some of this ways together. Especially telling stories but being able to go deeper and explore data underneath the story by your self is something that I observe happening more and more in interactive info graphics on the web now.

More on my blog: http://marcinignac.com/blog/2009/06/15/is-data-visualization-a-way-of-story-telling-exploration-or-expression/