Visualization

Also discussed in class: Interactive/navigable visualizations as research products, online publication of research.

Readings:

Tufte book Beautiful Evidence (read all of it -- except: the sculpture chapter is optional).

Manovich, Lev. (2008). Data Visualisation as New Abstraction and Anti-Sublime. In: Byron Hawk, David Reider, and Ollie Oviedo (eds.). Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Preprint: http://www.manovich.net/DOCS/data_art_2.doc

Today's Question: Propose a new visualization that is relevant to your research interests and does not currently exist. If you like, you can adapt an example from the Tufte book. You don't have to draw the visualization but feel free to include a sketch or links to other examples. Please describe or argue for the value of your visualization using Tufte's concepts where they apply (information space, intellectual approach, design style, causality, multivariate analysis, integration, etc.).

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