Tag: Sheila Pontis
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Backstage of my thesis writing-up process
As one of my colleagues has said”¦ ”˜I have been silent, but BUSY.’ This July I have been writing up the second draft of my thesis, trying to cover all details, references, and making all chapters part of a complete unit. Of course there are still point to polish and change. To some extent, I…
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Big Bang Data Conference
Last Saturday July 3 took place in Chile Big Bang Data Conference, the first International Data Visualisation Conference. The conference starting point was the Chilean earthquake that took place last February 27. This generated the creation and development of massive amounts of data and information coming from all different sources. In addition, a general chaotic…
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Content is all
Last week, I attended to Edward Tufte’s lecture at the Royal Geographical Society. As he has mentioned in one of his books, there was a set of visual material related to the presentation for everyone in the audience, the lecture began on time, and he finished one minute before. In general, Tufte presented a historical…
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Information design in Politics
During the recently UK general elections, Information Design made easier to analyse and compare numbers in daily newspapers, and to understand the complex polls results, as can be appreciated in the images below. In a different country, but also related to politics, Information Design is also showing the importance of visualising complex issues. Last March,…
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what information designers do
I often find myself explaining what information designers do and not finding the exact words to make myself clear. Related to this, I think that the Special Report about Information Design, included in the last grafik magazine edition, gives a bit of light to this subject. Paul Stiff, Mike Esbester and Paul Dobraszczyk describe the…
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Using methods for designing
Generally, when I explain about my research many designers and colleagues ask me about if it is worth to propose a design method, because designers do not usually follow any kind of method when designing. However, as I am a bit stubborn and completely convince about the applicability and usefulness of my research, I tend…
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word clouds
A colleague told me about wordle long time ago, but I have never used it until today. The more you research, the more information you have, and when you have to write up the final thesis document you have to be sure to include only the relevant data. The past weeks, I have been dealing…
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is information beautiful?
In previous posts I have written about effective diagrams, without mention if they were beautiful of not. It is important to clarify the difference between these terms: beauty and effectiveness. There are many design books that are govern by the concept of ”˜beauty’, that include unquestionable visual sources of infographics and diagrammatic typologies; where beautiful…
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visualising complex content
Sometimes diagrammatic language is usually associated with static print or digital projects, such as information graphics or diagrammatic maps. However, this language can be also used in 4D projects, such as animations and videos, to visualise complex information. As can be seen in this video, the used of diagrammatic language does not have result in…
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going to work
One of my colleagues sent me this link about how Americans go to work. A synthetic infographic showing the different commute patterns used by workers in eight different major US cities according to the 2008 US Census Bureau American Community Survey. The infographic includes information of people who drive, walk, cycle, or take mass transit.…
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Workshops as a Design Research Method
During the last three years I have run three series of workshops to collect information, create and evaluate the outcome of my thesis. Workshops as a research method are being used mostly in Social Sciences, as a qualitative approach. However, this thesis has used workshops as an action research approach for testing theory through practice.…
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