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. 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 Chris Wallace has implemented an XML page on which you can see and print the mouseover pictures individually. August 21st 2008 marks the 61st birthday of the great Ben Shneiderman, for many the father of information visualization. Imperfect Storm (Click on image to enlarge)

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. 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.