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Visualizing Information hybrid_fall 2013

“Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify”

Henry David Thoreau


Tufte, Visual Systems


TRANSLATING

TRANSPOSING

TRANSFIGURE

TRANSFORM


Napoleon’s Army in Russia Charles Joseph Minard


Napoleon’s Army in Russia Charles Joseph Minard

Tufte outlines six principles of analysis and presentation of data and all five are represented in this map.

1.  Show comparisons, contrasts and differences

2.  Show causality, mechanism, explanation, systematic structure

3.  Show multivariate data: That is show more than 1 or 2 variables

4.  Completely integrate words, numbers, images, diagrams

5.  Thoroughly describe the evidence. Provide a detailed title, indicate the authors and sponsors, document the data sources, show complete measurement scales, point out relevant issues

6.  Analytical presentations ultimately stand or fall depending on the quality, relevance and integrity of their content.


TRANSLATING Marcel Duchamp


"A straight horizontal thread one meter long falls from a height of one meter onto a horizontal plane twisting as it pleases and creates a new image of the unit of length." piece by Marcel Duchamp


Man in Black Velvet Etienne Jules Marey


Man in black suit with white lines down arms and legs Chronophotographie, Etienne Jules-Marey 1884


Nude Descending a Staircase No2 Marcel Duchamp, 1912


The Act of Mapping – a form of visualization

What does mapping do?

Maps are used for power As a means of control (property lines, country borders)

Maps have a point of view Either in terms of the author’s point of view or to convey a point of view

Maps have a context (location/historical)

Maps are self/author edited (can not contain all information, someone chooses what is included)

Maps tend to be site specific


REPRESENTATION METHODS


Walk Your Flat London Walking


Slow Walks Graph London Walking


Consumption and Distance London Walking


Food Map London Walking


Mutations: Rem Koolhaus Project on the City: ACTAR


Information is Beautiful (source) David McCandless (author)


Pictograms 2012 London Olympics


Airport Moji (script) Language of Dreams


Dot Grid Map Kartograph

In 1967, the French cartographer Jaques Bertin suggested the use of graduated sizes in a regular pattern as alternative to chroropleth maps.

The map shows the population distribution across departments in France. The country is overlaid by a regular grid of circles of which each is sized according to the population density of the department the circle falls into.

The most notable advantage is that one no longer need to choose between showing the quantity or density of a distribution, since the regular pattern shows both at the same time: You can compare the population density by looking at individual circles while still getting an impression of the total population for each department.


FIGURE GROUND COMPARING INFORMATION ABOUT THE CITY


4 CITIES – ONE SCALE


Density of the city - comparison S,M,L,XL; OMA Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau; Monacelli Press: 1995


TIMELINE CONVEYING INFORMATION ABOUT THE SAME CITY OVER A PERIOD OF TIME

CHICAGO’S URBAN EXPANSION

Bloomingdale Line Competition Ross Barney Architects


COMPARISON

CHICAGO’S URBAN EXPANSION IN CONTRAST TO ECOLOGICAL CONTRACTION

Bloomingdale Line Competition Ross Barney Architects


CITY MAPS INTERPRETING INFORMATION ABOUT THE CITY


Firstly, can we consider mapping the city through its use patterns, rather than illustrating it as an assembly of static landmarks? Is it possible to invert our notion of the city to foreground the fluctuating patterns of occupation and abandonment? Is it possible to repopulate the map to emphasize the rhythms of urban life rather than just the spaces in which they occur? Can we use wireless technologies to reflect back on themselves, revealing the emerging hybrid landscape of the material … as WiFi nodes are installed, wireless devices deployed, and adhoc networks formed? Finally, how should we associate the ephemeral events of the city in order to understand them as an evolving set of relationships?

Redefining the Basemap by Alison Sant


The Image of the City Kevin Lynch


The Naked City Guy Debord


London Tube Map Original Harry Beck, 1931


China Railway Timetable Beijing, April 1985


Time and Distance Rem Koolhaus, 1995


TRANSPOSING Movement


Philadelphia Planning Study Louis Khan


Static Movements Piero Zagami


TRANSFORMING Visualizing Sounds


Rock n’ Roll Is Here To Pay Rebecca Garofalo and Damon Rarey From Visual Explanations Tufte


Sound and Smell Map Vladimir Guculak


Down to the Wire Gillian Potts


Sound Sculptures Design Under Sky


Rhythm is Destroyed Paul Robare

http://lonelystreets.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/visual-score-rendered.mp3

To interpret the score, I decided to apply rules to the image, and then produce music that followed those rules. Broadly, I interpreted left to right as time, and top to bottom as panning from left (top) to right (bottom). I then set rules for each type of shape and visual aspect. Circles are percussion, lines show evolution (of rhythm or tones), solid shapes are full sounds, outlines are more hollow sounds. Triangles were violins and pads, rectangles represented bass and lead sounds, etc. Finally, I took my rules and scripted out what each shape in the score should sound like before sitting down and synthesizing/sampling my sounds and composing them to fit the score.


Silent London Simon Elvis

http://lonelystreets.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/visual-score-rendered.mp3

Simon Elvins is concerned with sound as an ubiquitous force. Silent London plots quiet spaces in the English capitol using noise level data. An embossed print shows quiet areas raised up from the paper, bringing them to the attention of the viewer, while noise areas become blanked out valleys.

The map intends to reveal a hidden landscape of quiet spaces and shows an alternate side of the city that would normally go unnoticed.


Evolution of the Mobile Phone


Battery Life

Mobile Phones

Weight

Home Phones

Evolution of the Mobile Phone


Pictoral


Increasing Disorder in a Dining Table Attributed to Diller Scofidio


BBC Future Space Race Piero Zagami


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