Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (503 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616892196 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Nominated by Creativity magazine as "one of the 50 most creative and influential minds of 2009," Manuel Lima is an interaction designer, researcher and founder of VisualComplexity, a comprehensive repository of complex network visualisations. He also writes and frequently speaks on the topic of information visualisation. . He is a graduate of the Technical University of Lisbon (BA) and Parsons School of Design (MFA)
From the Bible to Wikipedia edits to the human genome, the gorgeous and thought-provoking visualizations in the book will make you look at the world in a whole new way, and the insightful essays accompanying them will vastly expand your understanding of the trends and technologies shaping our ever-evolving relationship with information." -- Brain Pickings"Visual Complexity is a showcase for the intersection of art, design and science Some of the examples are indeed silly. Many are decidedly beautiful. And all are fascinating, given the infinite kinds of data that can be visualized." --New York Times Book Review . Appropriately, his book Visual Complexity cuts through digital clutter, using colorful examples to illustrate these fields." --Surface magazine"Incredibly ambitious, deeply researched, and beautifully illustrated."
"A fantastic work - and a recommendation" according to Todd. If you want to improve your ability to analyze and visualize data, this is an excellent book to read.If you're looking for click-by-click advice on how to make your next PowerPoint prettier, you might get frustrated by this book. But if you're interested in making your graphs more information-rich and analysis-friendly, you've come to the right place.If you're. Dan Eaves said presented here are mostly incomprehensible to those without a good background in the data being graphed. The visual representations of complex data presented here are mostly incomprehensible to those without a good background in the data being graphed. Trends are indeed more visible, but visual confusion over what is really being represented overwhelms me. Many of the representations are beautiful regardless of what they are intended to demonstrate. Framed and on. "5 stars book" according to Amazon Customer. Great work and beautiful visuals.I've seen the content of that book exhibited at the Big Bang data exhibition in Singapore.Online projects are very interesting as well: []
From diagramming networks of friends on Facebook to depicting interactions among proteins in a human cell, Visual Complexity presents one hundred of the most interesting examples of information visualization by the field's leading practitioners.. This groundbreaking 2011 book--the first to combine a thorough history of information visualization with a detailed look at today's most innovative applications--clearly illustrates why making meaningful connections inside complex data networks has emerged as one of the biggest challenges in twenty-first-century design. Manuel Lima's smash hit Visual Complexity is now available in paperback