Comments on: What Impact Does Our Country Have on Climate Change? http://flowingdata.com/2008/02/21/what-impact-does-our-country-have-on-climate-change/ Strength in Numbers Wed, 23 May 2012 01:27:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Nathan Yau http://flowingdata.com/2008/02/21/what-impact-does-our-country-have-on-climate-change/#comment-1807 Nathan Yau Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:52:43 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/2008/02/21/what-impact-does-our-country-have-on-climate-change/#comment-1807 @Jon: That "recent post" would be on this blog http://flowingdata.com/2008/02/20/is-an-animated-transition-from-a-scatter-plot-to-a-bar-graph-effective/ :) @Jon: That “recent post” would be on this blog http://flowingdata.com/2008/02.....effective/ :)

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://flowingdata.com/2008/02/21/what-impact-does-our-country-have-on-climate-change/#comment-1805 Jon Peltier Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:43:05 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/2008/02/21/what-impact-does-our-country-have-on-climate-change/#comment-1805 Tom's observation may explain why some animation is very successful. A recent post (forget where) described improved comprehension between two displays by animating the change from scatter to bar charts. A better example is the awesome TED seminars by Hans Rosling. Tom’s observation may explain why some animation is very successful. A recent post (forget where) described improved comprehension between two displays by animating the change from scatter to bar charts.

A better example is the awesome TED seminars by Hans Rosling.

]]> By: Nathan Yau http://flowingdata.com/2008/02/21/what-impact-does-our-country-have-on-climate-change/#comment-49812 Nathan Yau Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:55:00 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/2008/02/21/what-impact-does-our-country-have-on-climate-change/#comment-49812 @tom: an interesting comment about people not remembering visual information over time. maybe to improve this viz is to have some viz that shows what has passed already so that whatever appears doesn't become a fleeting memory? @tom: an interesting comment about people not remembering visual information over time. maybe to improve this viz is to have some viz that shows what has passed already so that whatever appears doesn’t become a fleeting memory?

]]> By: tom http://flowingdata.com/2008/02/21/what-impact-does-our-country-have-on-climate-change/#comment-49811 tom Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:59:00 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/2008/02/21/what-impact-does-our-country-have-on-climate-change/#comment-49811 I think the problem here and with quite a few time based visualisations is that people don't readily remember visual information over time. Vison is mainly space based coding with a relatively small time element, hearing is predominantly time based with some spatial coding. I think this is why music is so concerned with patterns over time. maybe some kind of sound visualisation (sonofication?) might be more appropriate for conveying this information... I think the problem here and with quite a few time based visualisations is that people don’t readily remember visual information over time. Vison is mainly space based coding with a relatively small time element, hearing is predominantly time based with some spatial coding. I think this is why music is so concerned with patterns over time. maybe some kind of sound visualisation (sonofication?) might be more appropriate for conveying this information…

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