[FRIAM] Rich site related to data visualization

[Robert Cordingley]

I found the slides (linked in the article) more informative than the 
blog article.  But on the issue of Visualization ¿Science? I see it is 
as a suite of Visualization Technologies:

1) that allows the creative mind the opportunity to discover new or 
hidden relationships in data that otherwise might not be seen.  Such 
insights allow real science to be pursued in the classical process of 
observation, hypothesis, experiment, measurement, analysis and 
duplication.  Visualization of data collected during this process is a 
valuable activity but not science itself.  Visualization Technology 
supports the scientific process - revealing relationships such as causal 
phenomenon.

2) that allows the creative mind to present large amounts of data and 
their complex relationships.  This is useful in GUIs and navigation of 
related data - revealing and simplifying complexity such as 
communication networks.

3) that allows the creative mind to display and model complex systems, 
and analyze their performance - revealing detail in simulations of real 
world systems.

Engineering uses knowledge to build machines.  Science uses machines to 
build knowledge.  Technology is the practical application of knowledge.  
I'd hate to get the terms confused.  Obviously I thing creativity is key 
to successful visualization efforts.

See my longer discussion on visualization in 
http://www.cirrillian.com/news0202.html.

Robert C
www.cirrillian.com

Owen Densmore wrote:

>I really like this article included in the blog:
>   The Loneliness of the Visualization Critic
>   http://eagereyes.org/blog/loneliness-of-the-visualization-critic.html
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>     -- Owen
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>Owen Densmore   http://backspaces.net
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>On Jan 1, 2007, at 8:38 PM, J T Johnson wrote:
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>>To the FRIAM gang, snowbound and otherwise....
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>>For those of us interested in data visualization, I just chanced  
>>upon this fine site.
>>Check out:  http://eagereyes.org/
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>>-tj
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>>To change something, build a new model that makes the
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