I found the slides (linked in the article) more informative than the
blog article. But on the issue of Visualization ¿Science? I see it is
as a suite of Visualization Technologies:
1) that allows the creative mind the opportunity to discover new or
hidden relationships in data that otherwise might not be seen. Such
insights allow real science to be pursued in the classical process of
observation, hypothesis, experiment, measurement, analysis and
duplication. Visualization of data collected during this process is a
valuable activity but not science itself. Visualization Technology
supports the scientific process - revealing relationships such as causal
phenomenon.
2) that allows the creative mind to present large amounts of data and
their complex relationships. This is useful in GUIs and navigation of
related data - revealing and simplifying complexity such as
communication networks.
3) that allows the creative mind to display and model complex systems,
and analyze their performance - revealing detail in simulations of real
world systems.
Engineering uses knowledge to build machines. Science uses machines to
build knowledge. Technology is the practical application of knowledge.
I'd hate to get the terms confused. Obviously I thing creativity is key
to successful visualization efforts.
See my longer discussion on visualization in
http://www.cirrillian.com/news0202.html.
Robert C
www.cirrillian.com
Owen Densmore wrote:
I really like this article included in the blog:
The Loneliness of the Visualization Critic
http://eagereyes.org/blog/loneliness-of-the-visualization-critic.html
-- Owen
Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net
On Jan 1, 2007, at 8:38 PM, J T Johnson wrote:
To the FRIAM gang, snowbound and otherwise....
For those of us interested in data visualization, I just chanced
upon this fine site.
Check out: http://eagereyes.org/
-tj
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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
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