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I loved this book. It really opened my eyes about the possibilities and limitations of what visuals can communicate. In our advertising and political age, I see infographics being bigger part of how we absorb information. Especially in schools, there will be shift. This is not a diluting the message, but understanding that different mediums communicate better.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
This is a wonderful book that shows numerous examples of Information Aesthetics. My problem with the book is I was hoping for something that showed good examples of how to visualize data and make it aesthetically pleasing. Unfortunately for me the book mostly focused on Aesthetics and some of the examples where actually very poor at communicating the content of the data which would have been great if they were listed as anti patterns. Regardless of my criticism I am happy I purchased the book and have found some interesting and useful examples. If Amazon allowed half ratings I would have rated it 3.5.
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This is a fabulous book for anyone who is faced with combining information/data and design. It's not the most practical in the sense that the design solutions are very conceptual and so design-driven that you might not be able to apply to your particular graphic design job. But the art is so great it is worth getting every bit of inspiration possible.
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As an architecture student, what has been interesting is how important data has become and how big data can be utilized to find both problems and solutions in the built environment. It is important how to visualize data and to get the message across through sound and concrete visualizations. Data Flow offers compelling graphics and projects and for architects and designers alike, this book can be helpful in the developing a creative message through graphic design.
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54 of 58 people found the following review helpful
We're inundated with small data, big data, complex data... lotsa data. And the data is THE story; it should be front and center. Data Flow depicts hundreds of stunning data viz examples. The book is aesthetically beautiful. However, several of the diagrams suffer from low data-to-ink ratios (lots of paint, little useful data)... and many are illegible and printed too small to see or require specific domain knowledge to decrypt.
Where's the data? The book proselytizes the importance of data and there ain't much raw data to be seen (or linked to).
The book designers have forgotten to treat typography as the visual hierarchy for words, the interface design for text. The type treatments and layouts are difficult to read.
Designers, engineers, statisticians, and decision-makers need data viz guidance. This book is not an academic dive into data visualization and needs to follow several of it's own rules for displaying information. But this book provokes your imagination.
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Just got my copy yesterday, and while it's a beautiful book to look at, much (if not most) of the text is so small that it really does require a magnifying glass to read, at least for this late-middle-aged reader. As several others have noted, for a book about information design, it's rather poorly designed. On the other hand, it's a nice coffee table book, if all you're looking for is cool images.
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11 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Pie charts, line graphs, and diagrams are typical kinds of tools to visualize data to grasp what it is indicating and to utilize it. The exponential increase with computers in collecting, storing, and processing data has resulted in a tremendous volume of data. This data is useless unless it is put into some form such as a chart or graph giving some perspective on it. Information designers--what the individuals whose designs are seen in this book are called--create forms to capture aspects of information for the knowledge, reference, and use of individuals in different fields. These information designers design forms for information somewhat like architects now use computer technology to design a house to its future owner's specifications. Polls in political campaigns of any significant scale such as U.S. presidential campaigns are one type of familiar information gathering and information use. Polls' practical uses are obvious. They can inform candidate's about fundamental matters such as which issues to address, how to spend advertising funds, and where to make appearances.
Pie charts, line graphs, and diagrams are still used by information designers. Though these are oftentimes considerably more complex than the simple, rather skeletal ones of decades past. Today's information designers more often devise complex, multilayered, and multicolored representations which can be almost any shape and often look like a kind of op-art. New words are required for the designers to create and users to grasp the new information designs. The term "mining information" has been around for a while to connote how business and government organizations and the designers deal with masses of information.Read more ›
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