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”Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information.” - Edward R. Tufte

”Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information.” - Edward R. Tufte. On Information. Guru: Edward R. Tufte. ” Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information” Edward R. Tufte.

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”Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information.” - Edward R. Tufte

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  1. ”Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information.”- Edward R. Tufte

  2. On Information

  3. Guru:Edward R. Tufte

  4. ”Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information”Edward R. Tufte

  5. Visualizing the editing history of Wikipedia pages - Viégas, Wattenberg & Davehttp://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/or google “history flow” IBM

  6. Graphic Tools

  7. Choosing data... • Show only relevant data • Otherwise: clutter • Show only reliable data • Otherwise: distrust • Most important data comes first / is more colorful / is larger / etc! • Provide several views • Layering data vs not layering it

  8. InformationVisualization

  9. ”The use of computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of abstract data to amplify cognition”- Card, Mackinlay & Shneiderman

  10. Zooming andlenses

  11. Semantic ZoomWhen information changes (and typically gets richer) when zooming in.

  12. Magic Lenses: Transparent - Different properties - Change viewToolglass and Magic Lenses. Bier, E., et al., 1993

  13. The Document Lens G.G.Robertson and J.D.Mackinlay

  14. Focus + Context

  15. Focus + Context:To display the most important data at the focal point at full size and detail, and display the area around the focal point (the context) to help make sense of how the important information relates to the entire data structure. Regions far from the focal point may be displayed smaller (as in fisheye views) or selectively omitted.

  16. Fisheye Views

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