Visualization for Scientific Discovery by Nathan Yau.
Nathan points to a recent SciAM piece by Jeffrey Heer on visualization. Sounds worthwhile.
My only puzzle over visualization is why we are surprised that it works so well?
We have all had the experience of drawing diagrams to explain things, either to ourselves or others.
Crude but it is a form of visualization.
I suppose my question should be:
Why don’t we use visualization more playfully?
Just try it out.
May lead to something. May lead to nothing.
Won’t know unless we try.