Main entry:

Lima, Manuel, 1978-

Title & Author:

Visual complexity : mapping patterns of information / Manuel Lima.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2011.

Description:

272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-262) and index.
Foreword / Lev Manovich -- The tree of life. Sacred trees ; Trees of knowledge ; The end of an era -- From trees to networks. Planning a city ; Neural landscape ; Ubiquitous datasphere ; Social collaboration ; Classifying information ; Ordering nature ; Network thinking -- Decoding networks. The birth of network science ; Psychological geography ; The cartography of networks ; Principles of network visualization -- Infinite interconnectedness. Blogosphere ; Citations ; Del.icio.us ; Donations ; Email ; Internet ; Literature ; Music ; News ; Proteins ; Terrorism ; Trajectories ; Twitter ; Wikipedia -- The syntax of a new language. Arc diagram ; Area grouping ; Centralized burst ; Centralized ring ; Circled globe ; Circular ties ; Elliptical implosion ; Flow chart ; Organic rhizome ; Radial convergence ; Radial implosion ; Ramifications ; Scaling circles ; Segmented radial convergence ; Sphere -- Complex beauty. Holism ; Complexity encoding ; Ordered complexity ; Networkism -- Looking a ahead. Seeing the world in data / Nathan Yau ; The fall and rise of ambient visualization / Andrew Vande Moere ; Cybernetics revisited : toward a collective intelligence / Christopher Kirwan ; Reflexive ecologies : visualizing priorities / David McConville.

Summary:

"Our ability to generate information now far exceeds our capacity to understand it. Finding patterns and making meaningful connections inside complex data networks has emerged as one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century. In recent years, designers, researchers, and scientists have begun employing an innovative mix of colors, symbols, graphics, algorithms, and interactivity to clarify, and often beautify, the clutter. From representing networks of friends on Facebook to depicting interactions among proteins in a human cell, Visual Complexity presents one hundred of the most interesting examples of information-visualization by the field's leading practitioners."--Amazon.

ISBN:

9781568989365 (alk. paper)
1568989369 (alk. paper)
9781616892197
1616892196

Subject:

Communication in science Graphic methods.
Visual communication.
Information scientifique Méthodes graphiques.
Communication visuelle.
Reconnaissance des formes.
Arts graphiques.
Informationsgrafik
Visualisierung
Graphische Darstellung.
Netzwerk.
Visuelle Kommunikation.
Informationsteori.
Kommunikationsteori.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274588
Call No.: Q223 .L55 2011
Status: Available