May 21, 2008

Visualization for Information Retrieval, Jin Zhang

I was looking for examples of scientific visualization, which is a completely different thing. Information visualization is mind-maps, or nested folders (and how is that tree displayed?), or the 'volcano' desktop, or a fisheye, or a lot of other thing discussed here. Of course, all of those are 'really' algorithmic; weighted graphs or probability distributions... There are more equations and matrices here than visualizations.

The chapters on ambiguity and the meaning of metaphor were interesting as abstractions of what I had been thinking of as the human tendency to error. This is an overlap between CSci and CogSci, so citing Lakoff makes sense.

Find in a Library: Visualization for Information Retrieval

So wrote clew in Technology.
And thus wrote others:
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