How do visualisations enhance the communication of data?
Finished my essay into how graphic design can enhance communication in data visualisation & information graphics:
visualisationmagazine.com/dissertation.htm
"graphic design ‘sorts and differentiates, it informs, it helps to shape how we feel, see the world’" (Newark, 2002, p. 6)
I look into areas such as (please note these intermix with each other):
a. Mind and Vision
b. Communication
c. Perception and Reality
d. Semiotics
e. Graphics
Within this paper I explore the creative and innovative design techniques for mapping information to aid thinking, understanding, comprehension and reasoning. I summarized the key points into guidelines for the at-a-glance findings.
"it may be possible to utilise symmetry and geometry to aid vision when perceiving a visualisation to understand data" (Wood and Keller, 1996, p 256)
This consideration of the way the map designer represents the world is not just associated with that of geographic cartograms but also with the way the designer visualises complex data. "if the designer retained 100% truth, they would no longer be mapping, representing aspects of geographic space, it would be entirely realisitic, the territory"
Read more: visualisationmagazine.com/dissertation.htm.
I am pleased as this means I have passed my MA Contemporary Arts Practice at York St John University investigating data visualisation, graphic design, information mapping. Read more background about me. Dont worry, I will still be blogging, collating and compiling the magazines. See more projects developed from my studies: visualisation magazine.com
visualisationmagazine.com/blogvisualthinkmap 
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