Visual thinking: Visual complexity

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Visual Literacy

http://www.visual-literacy.org/pages/documents.htm Visual Literacy for Managers - How Sketching enables Visual Problem Solving and Communication (get the hardcopy edition at sketchingatwork.com ) By clicking on a map or diagram thumbnail below, you can access an interactive graphic overview on tools, books, researchers in different visualization fields, as well as on key success factors of visualization. There is also an interactive organizing table that shows (incl. examples) one hundred visualization-based methods. Clicking on a particular tool, book, person, document, principle or method within a map opens the respective website or homepage in a new browser window or reveals an example (most maps were created with lets-focus). Lengler R., Eppler M. (2007). Towards A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods for Management.
These images are part of a large collection of fifty city maps tracing geotagged photos from Flickr and Picasa. Eric Fischer determined the speed at which photographers travelled the various urban landscapes by analyzing their photos' timestamps and geotags, and plotting them on an OpenStreetMap background layer. The maps are ordered by the number of pictures taken in the central cluster of each city, and include various metropolises like New York, London, Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo, Berlin, Rome, Barcelona, Vancouver, and Hong Kong. http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=727

Geotaggers

Random Walk

Special thanks to: Anne Schnabel, Dr. rer. nat. Rudolf Schnabel and Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen and John Townsend. Thank you for supporting my project: Dr. http://random-walk.com/index_en.htm
We might commonly say we live in a complex and interconnected world, and even though this tends to be a fairly consensual statement, there's no better way to grasp the extend of nature's convolutedness than to look at the interdependency of its innumerous ecosystems. The images shown here are renderings of the metanetwork for the San Francisco Bay food web. The network consists of 163 nodes, each node being a guild. In total, they represent approximately 1,600 species of invertebrates and fish, as well as four nodes representing various types of autotrophic producers. There are 5,024 links or trophic interactions between the guilds. http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=746

Visual complexity