Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information (history of information and data visualization and guide to today's innovative applications)

Lima, Manuel

ISBN 10: 1616892196 / ISBN 13: 9781616892197

Editore: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013

Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. Codice articolo M01616892196-G

Riassunto:

Networks are all around us. Our brain is a network of cells and cells themselves are networks of molecules. Societies are networks of people and on a larger scale, food webs and ecosystems are networks of species. Networks are not just prevalent in nature but also in many manmade structures, like power grids, transportation systems and the Internet. In October 2005, Manuel Lima, an interaction designer and researcher, founded VisualComplexity.com, a comprehensive repository of complex network visualisations. From an initial collection of roughly 80 projects, the website quickly grew to encompass over 700 projects, with a goal to facilitate a critical understanding of a spectrum of network visualisation methods. This book analyses, collects and presents some of the most interesting examples of information graphics in a single volume. Never before have we felt so strongly the notion of living in a highly interdependent world, where everything appears to be connected to everything else

Dalla quarta di copertina: Manuel Lima's smash hit Visual Complexity is now available in paperback. This groundbreaking 2011 book-the first to combine a thorough history of information visualization with a detailed look at today's most innovative applications-clearly illustrates why making meaningful connections inside complex data networks has emerged as one of the biggest challenges in twenty-first-century design. From diagramming networks of friends on Facebook to depicting interactions among proteins in a human cell, Visual Complexity presents one hundred of the most interesting examples of informationvisualization by the field's leading practitioners.

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Titolo: Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of ...
Casa editrice: Princeton Architectural Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2013
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: good