I know one thing: There is nothing more pleasurable than trying to bring sense of the world that surrounds us. Recording first, codifying second and parsing third, its perceivable phenomena in different arrays of variables... interconnecting at different angles and dimensions. All of these in a heroic attempt to discover, if not the meaning of...more »

I know one thing: There is nothing more pleasurable than trying to bring sense of the world that surrounds us. Recording first, codifying second and parsing third, its perceivable phenomena in different arrays of variables... interconnecting at different angles and dimensions. All of these in a heroic attempt to discover, if not the meaning of life, at least interesting correlations of cause-and-effect within. At least to feel in control of what we are not.

There is no better tool to make legible any of the resulting conclusions than a good understanding and application of visual codification techniques and their graphic representation.

Why is it that we humans find some graphics more intuitively informing than others? Why is it that certain symbols and abstractions of data become quickly a convention and therefore part of an ever-expanding alphabet of modular abstractions? Why is it that we look at a spreadsheet and brings no joy (tears more likely), but we look at a chart and we feel almost gastronomical reactions?

In the quest for better, more beautiful techniques of visualization... Is why this group is borne.

Please bring your recommendations, suggestions and comments. Post your theories, your proposals, your manifestos. The goal is to keep enhancing our palette of information graphics and devices. The byproduct is to have a blast with plenty of wow and aha moments. « less