There’s no question that visuals help us think. Visualizing information allows us to perceive data in new ways. It’s a bursting trend across the Internet, because the tools are there and the graphics are compelling.
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Visualizations
Ah, the trials and tribulations of working in two-dimensions. If you design information displays, information graphics, or visualizations, you know that it’s fairly common to use the horizontal dimension to represent each individual factor and to use the vertical dimension of a mark to indicate the level of each factor.
If you need a break from serious design and want to see how graphs can spoof on society, life, people
Project Palantir is a visualization of all the actions, interpreted as data, that Facebook generates. The visualization has many facets. In one, data is represented as floating off the planet (cool idea).
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