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Visual thinking: Visual complexity

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Visual Literacy. Visual Cards for Collaboration and Team Creativity Making the Complex Clear 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).

Stairs to visual excellence "Towards A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods for Management"Lengler R., Eppler M. (2007). Version 1.5 of the periodic table as PDF Imperfect Storm (Click on image to enlarge) Maninthedark.com by Miltos Manetas and Aaron Russ Clinger , 2004. Gravity.html from nowykurier.com. Forked from: [Stardust] KiraKira Waypoints.

Spisi. Geotaggers. Random Walk. Visual complexity. 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. The dataset currently excludes birds and marine mammals. The second image, representing the same metanetwork, uses a different drawing algorithm, which arranges guilds hierarchically instead of in a circular fashion. As Rachel Hertog's professor Peter D.