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.. | <b>Type:</b> Book/Hardcover<br> | ||
<b>Author:</b> [[Bertin, Jacques|Jacques Bertin]]<br> | |||
<b>Pages:</b> 415<br> | |||
<b>Publisher:</b>University of Wisconsin Press <br> | |||
<b>Publication Date:</b>1983<br> | |||
This book explains fundamentals of information visualization. | |||
Unfortunately, the book out of print. A reprint was promised by the University of Wisconsin Press but not available yet. | |||
To put the main thought in the author‘s words: | |||
What should be printed to facilitate communication, that is, to tell others what we know, without a loss of information? We now know that understanding means simplifying, reducing a vast amount of data to the small number of categories of information that we are capable of taking into account in dealing with a given problem. | |||
So, it is the simplest and thus most communicable image that Semiology of Graphics proposes to construct. | |||
{{ISBN|0299090604}} | |||
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Revision as of 17:40, 17 October 2005
Type: Book/Hardcover
Author: Jacques Bertin
Pages: 415
Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
Publication Date:1983
This book explains fundamentals of information visualization. Unfortunately, the book out of print. A reprint was promised by the University of Wisconsin Press but not available yet.
To put the main thought in the author‘s words: What should be printed to facilitate communication, that is, to tell others what we know, without a loss of information? We now know that understanding means simplifying, reducing a vast amount of data to the small number of categories of information that we are capable of taking into account in dealing with a given problem.
So, it is the simplest and thus most communicable image that Semiology of Graphics proposes to construct.
ISBN 0299090604