eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 16 2008 | research, information, science
Mark Changizi argues that our visual perception has evolved to anticipate the future. While the actual news isn't as sexy as it sounds, it's still really intriguing stuff.
Quoted: “Evolution has seen to it that geometric drawings like this elicit in us premonitions of the near future,” says Changizi. “The converging lines toward a vanishing point are cues that trick our brains into thinking we are moving forward—as we would in the real world, where the door frame seems to bow out as we move through it—and we try to perceive what that world will look like in the next instant.”
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 14 2008 | information, design, thepugetnews
A really great site collecting various information design patterns and laying out their respective utilities.
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 14 2007 | business, books, information, MBA, self-education, education, learning, thepugetnews
The Personal MBA site has been relaunched and looks fantastic!
Their slogan is "mastering business through self-education."
Quoted: "You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library." - Will Hunting, "Good Will Hunting"
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 14 2007 | data, data visualization, art, information, display, graphics, thepugetnews
A photo-list of various data visualization approaches. Some of them are quite stunning and useful.
Quoted: Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion.
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