Visualization
Mostly from Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
# High density visualization
High-density designs allow viewers to select, to narrate, to recast and personalize data for their own uses.
The control of information is given over to viewers, not to editors, designers, or decorators
Thin data prompts suspicions: “What are they leaving out? Is that really everything they know? What are they hiding? Is that all they did?”
It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.
Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information
# Colour
Fundamental uses of colour in information design
- To label (colour as noun)
- To measure (colour as quantity)
- To represent or imitate reality (colour as representation)
- To enliven it decorate