Jane Dallaway

Jane Dallaway

Jane Dallaway  //  Data loving developer/leader/product shaper, storyline curator/creator, life-long learner, photographer, dog owner, reader, crafter, gardener and occasional snowboarder

This blog contains all sorts of odds and ends, from event reviews, stuff about my storyline project, bits of craft, through thoughts on learning, to photography stuff, and general inspiration things. It's a bit all over the place with no real theme, but then so am I!

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Sep 26 2011

Data visualisation patterns

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Photo of a page in Edward Tufte's Envisioning Information

It was interesting coming across this page in the "Narratives of space and time" chapter as I recognised, with 90% confidence, this as being a diagram of railway connections. Despite not understanding the language of the text I recognise the language of the pattern used to display the data held within it.

This got me to thinking - does this instant recognition mean I take in more information or less? If I was to display other connected data in a similar way would I understand it easier because I recognise the pattern or find it more difficult to comprehend because I expect it to be a different type of data?

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