Comments on: On-demand structures http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/19/on-demand-structures/ Niko Nyman's blog on shifting topics. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:47:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: TomC http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/19/on-demand-structures/#comment-16745 TomC Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:08:07 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/19/on-demand-structures/#comment-16745 <p>Absolutely, I'm a big fan of Visual Complexity. As with infosthetics.com I have great respect for anyone who can carve out a niche and find lots of good content to fill it. I see a lot of things for the first time at both those sites.</p> <p>I think there's space in this area for some gentle critiquing to be done though. It's something I'm hoping to do more of this year - hopefully it won't be just one-liners buried in my del.icio.us feed for ever. I'm always glad to see thoughtful posts from you in this area, and others like eagereyes.org and mentegrafica.it are emerging with more to say than just "wow look!" too.</p> <p>Coincidentally, I just opened this post from Jason Santa Maria as I was finishing off this comment: http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/archive/2006/02/02/utl_2_critiquing.php</p> Absolutely, I’m a big fan of Visual Complexity. As with infosthetics.com I have great respect for anyone who can carve out a niche and find lots of good content to fill it. I see a lot of things for the first time at both those sites.

I think there’s space in this area for some gentle critiquing to be done though. It’s something I’m hoping to do more of this year - hopefully it won’t be just one-liners buried in my del.icio.us feed for ever. I’m always glad to see thoughtful posts from you in this area, and others like eagereyes.org and mentegrafica.it are emerging with more to say than just “wow look!” too.

Coincidentally, I just opened this post from Jason Santa Maria as I was finishing off this comment: http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/archive/2006/02/02/utl_2_critiquing.php

]]> By: Niko http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/19/on-demand-structures/#comment-16738 Niko Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:34:50 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/19/on-demand-structures/#comment-16738 <p>Visual Complexity is indeed an excellent source of good looking experiment, but for me a visualization has to be useful to be good. Nevertheless, it is an entertaining and visually interesting site.</p> Visual Complexity is indeed an excellent source of good looking experiment, but for me a visualization has to be useful to be good. Nevertheless, it is an entertaining and visually interesting site.

]]> By: TomC http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/19/on-demand-structures/#comment-16728 TomC Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:52:42 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/19/on-demand-structures/#comment-16728 <p>It definitely looks interesting. You're spot on about the Rewiring the Spy visualisation - it only illustrates the problem, it doesn't solve it. Sadly this is true of many of the pieces on Visual Complexity... many of them use the "throw the data at the screen and see what sticks" approach, which is always tempting but rarely fruitful. (I'm guilty of this too, from time to time.)</p> It definitely looks interesting. You’re spot on about the Rewiring the Spy visualisation - it only illustrates the problem, it doesn’t solve it. Sadly this is true of many of the pieces on Visual Complexity… many of them use the “throw the data at the screen and see what sticks” approach, which is always tempting but rarely fruitful. (I’m guilty of this too, from time to time.)

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