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		<title>Beautiful Visualization Chapter 1: On Beauty</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from my chapter in Beautiful Visualization. You can download a pdf of the entire chapter.



Chapter One: On Beauty, by Noah Iliinsky

This chapter is an examination of what we mean by beauty in the context of visualization, why it’s a worthy goal to pursue, and how to get there. We’ll start with a discussion of the elements of beauty, look at some examples and counterexamples, and then focus on the critical steps to realize a beautiful visualization.

[I use the words visualization and visual interchangeably in this chapter, to refer to all types of structured representation of information. This encompasses graphs, charts, diagrams, maps, storyboards, and less formally structured illustrations.]

What is Beauty?
What do we mean when we say a visual is beautiful? Is it an aesthetic judgment, in the traditional sense of the word? It can be, but when we’re discussing visuals in this context, beauty can be considered to have four key elements, of which aesthetic judgment is only one. For a visual to qualify as beautiful, it must be aesthetically pleasing, yes, but it must also be novel, informative, and efficient.]]></description>
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		<title>Organic growth of a social network</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This movie reveals more knowledge by showing not only which individuals know each other, but also when and how the social network formed, by calling out the contexts and individuals responsible for an introduction between two new friends. Visually representing more complexity allows the viewer a deeper understanding of the social dynamics and causalities involved. ]]></description>
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		<title>Bike map legends</title>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2009/02/bike-map-legends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a straightforward case of two different agencies presenting similar information in different ways, one with better design choices and one with more arbitrary, less useful choices. Both King County and the City of Seattle (where I live) publish regional bike maps with markings for bike lanes and trails. Compare how they are encoded. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infocamp 2008 Presentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the slideshow and audio from my Infocamp 2008 presentation on User-Centered Information Design. The audio synchronization seems to work when played straight through, but not when you manually advance the slides. User-Centered Information Design View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: iliinsky information design)]]></description>
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		<title>Humorous pop-culture visuals: Song Charts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just introduced to the Song Chart group group on Flickr. It&#8217;s full of visualizations of song lyrics. Many are clever, many are hilarious. This is my contribution.]]></description>
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		<title>Shopping cart map</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visiting unfamiliar contexts can lead to interesting discoveries. In this case I&#8217;m in Williamsburg Virginia, and was impressed that a regional grocery chain, Bloom, had store maps mounted on their shopping cart handles. Brilliant. (click for full sized image) A quick google for them reveals a blurb where they characterize their stores as &#8220;uncomplicated&#8221; and [...]]]></description>
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