“the main point of information visualization is not to decorate, nor to show-off but, to help in making the right conclusions on unexplored data”
I recently googled for information on visualization, or casually, “infovis”. I ran into a weblog on Information Aesthtics (”infosthetics”). Visualizing social networks seems to be one of the leading topics in this blog, too. Network visualization is, as Janne recently pointed out, technically difficult as such, but also conceptually problematic. And network visualization is only one visualization task in our work.
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