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Even The Wall Street Journal uses headlines! (More Pixel per info).

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Dear charts experts and data visualization specialists, this first post is for you.

I know that you have listened to John Peltier, Jorge Camoes, Stephen Few… But it’s time to read again Florence Nightingale, William Playfair and even Raymond Loewy! Before calling heretics the ones who are using more pixel per information, don’ make the same mistake as the medieval Inquisition who had this narrow-minded vision of what said the Bible and what should be done. Thinking too technically or even too mechanically cannot help you to understand the aesthetic part of Edward Tufte’s work.

Inside our company, we have one of the major european data visualization library. We don’t see a single truth. So please open your mind to many other theories (as there are many gospels in the Bible) such as Story-telling, Neuro-Marketing, Semiology, Chromoteraphy…

Stay tuned, because we will try to show new ideas.

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/frontpage/homepage.html

Don’t forget newspapers are optimized for real people.

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One Response to “Even The Wall Street Journal uses headlines! (More Pixel per info).”

  1. Andrea says:
    January 25, 2009 at 8:38 pm

    Only focusing on half of Tufte’s data visualization works (I guess these engineers choosed the “sparklines”) is like trying to run a marathon on one leg or speaking about depth perception having a single eye.

    Andrea