Design for Information

NOTES

INTRODUCTION

1 Card et al. (1999), 7.

2 For further reading on visual displays serving as cognitive artifacts, see Bertin (1967/1983); Card et al. (1999); Norman (1993); Tversky (2001); Ware (2004).

3 Dover in Barber (2005), 174.

4 www.3x4grid.com/about.html (Accessed March 13, 2012).

CHAPTER 1

1 Simon (1962), 468. It is outside the scope of this book to discuss the nature of complex systems; on the other hand, it is a relevant topic considering the kinds of systems that we often encounter with big data.

2 Chen (2006), 89.

3 Cone-trees: Robertson et al. (1991); hyperbolic views: Lamping and Rao (1996), Munzner (1997).

4 Treemaps: Johnson and Shneiderman (1991).

5 Dondis (2000), 85.

6 See: Ware (2004, 2008), Card et al. (1999), MacEachren ...