Monthly Archives: April 2012

MT: @nypl_labs "What Makes a Good Data Visualization?" We’ve got the video: http://t.co/0hym5tcD #cunydh12

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Visualization Tools: Many Eyes

After having tried some of the visualization tools on Bamboo DiRT, I found Many Eyes to be the most fun.  Many Eyes lets you visualize any data you enter into its system through graphs, charts, trees, etc. It’s similar to … Continue reading

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From Trees to Networks

In the second chapter of Lima’s book he talked about how trees have been used to show hierarchy, neatness, and order when in reality nothing is a simply connected as trees portray. He discusses criticisms and alternative formats to trees … Continue reading

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Visual Complexity

Visual Complexity Introduction and Chapter 1 Manuel Lima starts his book introduction describing how he started his research. During his MFA he became interested in visual representation of networks, taking the blogosphere as the “laboratory to track and analyze how … Continue reading

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@cunycommons @RoxanneShirazi continues to knock it out of the park! #cunydh12

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Why can’t I understand network visualizations? On reading Manuel Lima for #cunydh12 http://t.co/bUf67yOu

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Decoding Networks

I’ll preface this post by saying that even after reading Manuel Lima’s immensely readable chapter introducing networks in Visual Complexity, I am not entirely certain that I understand the purpose of most network visualizations. On second thought, perhaps I don’t … Continue reading

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