I am continuing to think about what it would take to create a robust visualization method for networked systems. If you want the visualization to be a way of teaching, I don’t think it’s enough to simply show nodes and connectors. My thinking on this topic comes largely from my experience teaching. In essence, teaching…
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DesignTheory: Thoughts on entropy
As a scientist, I am used to thinking of entropy as disorder. It is the thing that takes a clear signal and turns it into noise. When entropy is introduced into a system, information decays. This week’s reading for my Design Theory class turned that idea on its head. We read Shannon + Weaver’s Mathematical…
DesignTheory: Visualizing Networks
My Design History class with Paul Kahn got me very interested in the early 1800’s as a period of design innovation. People has access to public data and statistics tools for the first time, and developed a host of new tools to visualize this new kind of information. William Playfair invented bar and pie charts,…