Xenographics
WHY WE SHOULD ALL BE LITTLE WILLIAM PLAYFAIRS
Maarten Lambrechts
@maartenzam
VIS COMES HOME
As knowledge increases amongst mankind, and transactions multiply, it becomes more and more desirable to abbreviate and facilitate the modes of conveying information from one person to another, and from one individual to the many.
ξένος
Xeno
γραφικός
graphics
Xenographics are what is published on xeno.graphics
Xenographic Method
Flip axes
Everything is a convention
Xenographic Method
Break-n-stack scales
Xenographphobia
The Xenographic Catch 22
It remains only for me to request that those who do not, at the first sight, understand the manner of inspecting the Charts, will read with attention the few lines of directions, after which they will find all the difficulty entirely vanish.
Data visualization is fundamentally combinatorial and the most effective analytical applications are not a single chart but a combination of several forms of information visualization married together
Xenographic Method
Crossbreed
chart types
Nomenclature—giving names to things and ideas—provides important markers for the adoption and use of innovations.
Harmonise the graphonyms
Our content format at Axios is brevity, so we hardly do posts with multiple charts. Because of that, we try to pack more into a limited amount of space.
Our design constraints are conducive to good weirdness!
Lazaro Gamio
Xenographic Method
Add dimensions
Every new chart type should be met by a healthy amount of both enthusiasm and skepticism
Jorge Camoes
How do we kill a bad idea in visualization, and when is it valuable to perform this euthanasia?
Michael Correll
Ross-Chernoff glyph most likely, to use a term of art, suck
The human mind has been so acted upon for a number of years past, and the same subjects have been so frequently brought forward, that it is necesarry to produce novelty, but above all to aim at facility in communicating information.
Xenographic Method
Crossbreed
data aspects
The research - practice gap
Till Nagel
Flip axes
Break-'n-stack axes
Crossbreed chart types
Add dimensions
Crossbreed data aspects
Everything is a convention
Xenographphobia & the Xenographic Catch 22
The importance of graphonomy
How to kill bad ideas
The research - practice gap
Thanks to
Till Nagel, Lazaro Gamio, Jorge Camoes, Xan Gregg, Alberto Cairo, Isabel Meirelles, Lisa Rost, Andy Kirk, RJ Andrews, Jan Aerts and Alan Smith
Special thanks to Sandra Rendgen, author of The forgotten maps of Minard, and École nationale des ponts et chaussées for the use of
Xenographics in the wild
Thanks!
Maarten Lambrechts
@maartenzam
Xenographics
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