From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 10:19:27 MDT
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:28:47AM -0700, Brian D Williams wrote:
>
> If you haven't yet, you might want to check out the man they call
> the Da Vinci of information display, Edward R. Tufte and his books:
>
> The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
>
> Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
>
> Envisioning Information.
Yes, Tufte is worth a shrine. His books are *beautiful* and contain a
treasure trove of wonderful ideas for visualisations. He has been a
great source of inspiration for me.
Apropos visualisation:
http://zeeb.library.cmu.edu:7850/JoSS/article.html has a great review of
the history of visual analysis of social networks, with some interesting
ideas. I especially like the concept of making a graph with two kinds of
nodes (in our case it would be people and threads) which could then be
placed in two different layers. So much to explore!
As for my work being post or webpage of the month, maybe we should have
a new category: implementation of the month. The informal award goes to
the best or most interesting implementation of something extropian -
software, courses, activism, companies or other things that promote or
participate in the extropian evolution. This way we can promote both
more RL implementation, and the creation of new ways of expressing
ourselves in media beyond the web and email.
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