Viz

• the truthful art
  1. Graphics that encode information function as cognitive aids
  2. The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder
     1. Use visualization as a starting point for exploration 1. Exposing complexity and inner contradictions 2. Confluence graph: http://well-formed.eigenfactor.org
  3. Many single number is meaningless, if you dig into it, like # of twitter followers (you can buy with money)
  4. This book is for designers with journalistic discipline
  5. Investigative reporter
  6. Compared to the standard of an effective and truthful infographic, I felt like academic poster is simply dull and not conveying information effectively
  7. The power of dynamic info-graph
  8. A data visualization is a display of data designed to enable analysis, exploration, and discovery