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| − | ===Reading List===
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| − | *Envisioning Data
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| − | **Chapter 2: Micro/Macro
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| − | **Chapter 3: Layering and Separation
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| − | **Chapter 5: Color and Information
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| − | ==Micro/Macro==
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| − | *General
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| − | **Large view, e.g. country map, cityscape
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| − | **Lots of details, e.g. provincial statistics, windows on a building
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| − | **However don't show too much, which details do you show? Which ones are appropriate to leave out? (pg 51 first blockquote)
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| − | *Material must be organized appropriately. Examples include:
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| − | **Organization of names on Vietnam War Memorial (pg 43)
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| − | **Table of Hospital costs (pg 57)
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| − | *When organizing and laying out information, there can be an aesthetic preference:
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| − | **Simplicity || Complexity?
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| − | **High Density || Thin Date?
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| − | **Number/Table based || Graphic/Map based
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| − | ==Layering and Separation==
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| − | *General
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| − | **Reduce noise, enrich the content of the displays
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| − | **Combine various elements of 'flatland' and make them interact "1 + 1 = 3 <em>or more</em>"
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| − | **Visual attraction of negative space (pg 60)
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| − | **Background and foreground elements (pg 65 blockquote)
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| − | ==Color and Information==
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| − | *General
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| − | **The trained eye can distinguish 1,000,000 colors, 20,000 otherwise. How can you use this to create distinguishable elements and enrich a visualization?
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| − | *Use of color to
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| − | **Label, color as a noun, color coding data sets. (pg 82)
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| − | **Measure, color as a quantity, color coding elevation on a map. (pg 82)
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| − | **Decorative, color as beauty, make it pleasurable to the eye. (pg 82)
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| − | **Clarity, color as distinction, as in slightly different hues of the same color to distinguish points. Also to clean up where black and white/grayscale fails, where 1+1=3 clutter. (pg 89)
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