FAT1 Outcome -‘Information Trickery’ Infographic

HAYHOE, G (2012) ‘Telling the Future of Information Design’, Communication Design Quarterly Review

In his article, which I find suitable entitled to finish off my series of bibliographies for this module, Hayhoe discusses his perception of the current state of information design within organizations, with a focus on the technical and professional communicators that the organizations employ. He then looks at how information design can progress to become……

MONMONIER, M.S (2005) ‘Lying with Maps’ Statistical Science. Vol. 20, No. 3, p. 215–222

Six years after publishing the second edition of his acclaimed essay “How to lie with maps” M.S. Monmonier  presents in a Statistical Science paper additional examples of how cartography inevitably suffers from distortions. The paper covers the effects of map scale (for example, the stretching and flattening of the earth curvature into a map means……

Critical Analysis: TUFTE, E. (2001) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, p 76-77

Introduction When choosing the subject of INFORMATION DISTORTION as my topic of  research and enquiry, an underlying motivation was, of course, to learn how to AVOID distorting information in my own practice.  I have chosen for my Critical Analysis a text by Edward Tufte, one of the most influential thinkers in the realm of Information……

CLEVELAND & MCGILL – Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation and Application to the Development of Graphical Methods (1984)

In their 1984 article Cleveland and McGill, asserting that there is a need for a scientific foundation for graphical methods for data analysis and presentation, introduce and test a theory that essentially seeks to suggest, and order hierarchically, graph elements according to how likely they are to be interpreted accurately by the average viewer. The……

My Methodology

I initially wanted to look at the keyword Infographics, which is one of the areas of my practice that I want to specifically improve during this course. But after a discussion with my tutor, I agreed it was too narrow and too pre-defined; restricting my creative thinking. I then wanted to work with Storytelling, but……

Example of a Great Infographic

This infographic, created by the man behind the “Information is Beautiful” blog as well as the book with the same name, David McCandless, is a lovely piece of work which also resonates with the themes of my enquiry. A few weeks ago, I watched McCandless very inspirational  TED talk. This infographic featured and I have……

On Our Filtered Reality

As I approach an end of my assignment, it is interesting to imagine just how much filtering is required before a slice of information can enter into the consciousness of an audience. Firstly, the information needs to be packaged into such a form – say, for example, a news article – that it can be……

“If You Like This, You’ll Like That” (Eli Pariser) – Definition of Filter Bubble

I’m posting this to clarify a concept that I have mentioned in my blog post  When Hillary Clinton Got off With Yoko Ono /…/ and which also features in my FAT1 assignment. Definition of FILTER BUBBLE, taken from Wikipedia: A filter bubble is a result of a personalized search in which a website algorithm selectively……

HILBERT, M & LOPEZ, P (2011) “The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information”

In their much quoted study on information, originally published in 2010, that summaries the findings and also includes the addition of some complimentary facts, Hilbert and Lopez estimate the world’s astronomical surge in technological capacity during the period 1986 to 2007 (in some cases 1986 to 2010). They investigate information from three angles; storage, communication……