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Information Visualization

The document discusses the history of data visualization from its early pioneers like William Playfair and Charles Minard in the 18th and 19th centuries to modern techniques. It covers topics like scientific visualization with Eadweard Muybridge, medical visualization by Florence Nightingale, cinematic techniques by the Lumière brothers, and contemporary forms of data art, information design, and cultural visualization using digital tools.

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Information Visualization

The document discusses the history of data visualization from its early pioneers like William Playfair and Charles Minard in the 18th and 19th centuries to modern techniques. It covers topics like scientific visualization with Eadweard Muybridge, medical visualization by Florence Nightingale, cinematic techniques by the Lumière brothers, and contemporary forms of data art, information design, and cultural visualization using digital tools.

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MAKING THE

INVISIBLE
VISIBLE
William Playfair
William Playfair
William Playfair
William Playfair
Charles Minard
Charles Minard
FLorence Nightingale
Leland Stanford Eadweard Muybridge
Eadward Muybridge
Etienne-Jules Marey
Herbert W. Franke
Etienne-Jules Marey
Umberto Boccioni
Auguste & Louis Lumière
Frank B. Gilbreth
Science Art

Economy Cinema
Alfred Stieglitz
Harold Edgerton
Harold Edgerton
Break
Translation
+ =

L-Systems (Program) Poem (Content) Visualization


Micro / Macro
Layering and Separation
Small Multiples
Colors and Information
Escaping Flatland
William Pearson - Planetary Machines
1.Recording 2.Refining

3.Visualizing
IBM Data Baby

BT Data Vis Advertising


Space and Time
Graphic Narratives
Otto Neurath - Isotype
GOOD Magazine
Interaction

Within the system With a person With the world


Cultural Visualization

Lev Manovich - Software Studies Initiative


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0
We Feel Fine
Self Tracking
People with HIV

Per capita income

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