Last week I read the proflies 9 and 10. Gregor Aisch and Jan Willem who are the main characters of profile 9, both of them have background in computer science and programming. The main topic are the challenges visualization be confront with and the attitudes of them towards to future of this filed.
Why they choose data visualization? For Gregor, he don't want to be a narrow specialist but wanna diving into a more board and field which could stimulate his creative passion and satisfies his aspiration to knowledge. For Jan, he thought that data visualization is a perfect combination of design and technology where he could make good advantage of his skills and knowledge.
How they got their first client? Gregor attended many relative competitions to raise his publicity. I'm quite agree with this. Despite the result, we could know many extraordinary designers and their works, also push ourselves to learn and improve our skills; in other words, it could not only enhance our abilities but also expend our social networks. Jan chosen a low-key way that he wrote his interests and strengths, publications of works on blog. I guess, professor lets us do weekly reports, one of the purposes might be similar as Jan's, haha.
The process of doing project? (How them do it?) Gregor's work depends on customers' needs/requirements, that is, most of his works are customized tools. Here are two habits when he do the work:1). making a lot of sketching; 2). check if the design follow the aims regularly. Jan more inclined to the theme he interested in. Whether it is in the filed of politics, economy or biology etc., he wanted to explore something that deserve a deep digging; and thorough the process, he could gain new things.
Which visualization they appreciate most? Well, if let me choose, I'll say, the "Ghost City". Its color schemes are really weird and just match its name; It used quite original design, since it didn't apply map but employing bubbles and lines to make the data visible. Compared with the method of map, this way makes people's attention focus on the data itself.
And I also see some wonderful designs through the links in the book. First is "Star Mapper", which shows 59 921 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue. When look upon on the night sky, see stars glittering, I just feel that how small of our human beings; but we still try to give out light consistently. This visualization also gives me such feeling. Click on Start to begin the exploration. The tour is divided into five sections: Apparent Magnitude, Absolute Magnitude, Hertzsprung-Russell, Motion, and Explore. Each section displays a short explanation of the current view; click on the cross to hide the explanation, or on the horizontal lines to open the explanation panel.
To move around the sky use scroll to zoom and drag to rotate the view.
They also introduce other master pieces. Like David McCandless, a modern practitioner, whose works are controversial. Among his works, "Key players and notable relationships" catches my eyes at first. Just like a spidery show the complicated relationships between many countries. If you wanna see informations of a certain country, just click it (and the lines will vibrate for a while, lol), it will tell you who are "friends" and who are "enemies".
Why they choose data visualization? For Gregor, he don't want to be a narrow specialist but wanna diving into a more board and field which could stimulate his creative passion and satisfies his aspiration to knowledge. For Jan, he thought that data visualization is a perfect combination of design and technology where he could make good advantage of his skills and knowledge.
How they got their first client? Gregor attended many relative competitions to raise his publicity. I'm quite agree with this. Despite the result, we could know many extraordinary designers and their works, also push ourselves to learn and improve our skills; in other words, it could not only enhance our abilities but also expend our social networks. Jan chosen a low-key way that he wrote his interests and strengths, publications of works on blog. I guess, professor lets us do weekly reports, one of the purposes might be similar as Jan's, haha.
The process of doing project? (How them do it?) Gregor's work depends on customers' needs/requirements, that is, most of his works are customized tools. Here are two habits when he do the work:1). making a lot of sketching; 2). check if the design follow the aims regularly. Jan more inclined to the theme he interested in. Whether it is in the filed of politics, economy or biology etc., he wanted to explore something that deserve a deep digging; and thorough the process, he could gain new things.
Which visualization they appreciate most? Well, if let me choose, I'll say, the "Ghost City". Its color schemes are really weird and just match its name; It used quite original design, since it didn't apply map but employing bubbles and lines to make the data visible. Compared with the method of map, this way makes people's attention focus on the data itself.
And I also see some wonderful designs through the links in the book. First is "Star Mapper", which shows 59 921 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue. When look upon on the night sky, see stars glittering, I just feel that how small of our human beings; but we still try to give out light consistently. This visualization also gives me such feeling. Click on Start to begin the exploration. The tour is divided into five sections: Apparent Magnitude, Absolute Magnitude, Hertzsprung-Russell, Motion, and Explore. Each section displays a short explanation of the current view; click on the cross to hide the explanation, or on the horizontal lines to open the explanation panel.
To move around the sky use scroll to zoom and drag to rotate the view.
In the Apparent Magnitude section you can drag the slider to set the limit on what stars are displayed.
In the Absolute Magnitude section toggle between the Apparent Magnitude and Absolute Magnitude buttons to how the brightness of the stars differs with distance.
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There are lots of fun to explore the galaxy with this tools, which is a good example of combination of art and technology.
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| http://sci.esa.int/star_mapper/ |
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| Source: https://informationisbeautiful.net |
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