information aesthetics.Where form follows data.
a novel form of presenting text data on electronic media by displaying the text as a series of cascading phrases. this presentation technique has been proven to result in faster reading with greater comprehension.
[link: liveink.com & readingonline.org]
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| Data Flow 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design Klanten et al. |
Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information Manuel Lima |
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics Dona M. Wong |
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| Data Flow 2: Beautiful Visualization Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky |
Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics Nathan Yau |
Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis Stephen Few |
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I looked at this in more detail. The technology is quite interesting, and the empirical results they report in a paper are quite promising. But their software is crap, merely a proof-of-concept demo.
Very cool! I've actually done this manually when trying to decipher legal text. It really does help a lot with comprehension. Perhaps because it offloads some of the chunking processes from your brain and onto the text...
At last, proof that lisp is easier to read than any other language ;p