Visual complexity : mapping patterns of information / Manuel Lima.
| Author/creator | Lima, Manuel, 1978- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2011. |
| Description | 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Mapping patterns of information |
| Contents | Foreword / Lev Manovich -- The tree of life : Sacred trees ; Trees of knowledge ; The end of an era -- From trees to networks : Planning a city ; Neural landscape ; Ubiquitous datasphere ; Social collaboration ; Classifying information ; Ordering nature ; Network thinking -- Decoding networks : The birth of network science ; Psychological geography ; The cartography of networks ; Principles of network visualization -- Infinite interconnectedness : Blogosphere ; Citations ; Del.icio.us ; Donations ; Email ; Internet ; Literature ; Music ; News ; Proteins ; Terrorism ; Trajectories ; Twitter ; Wikipedia -- The syntax of a new language : Arc diagram ; Area grouping ; Centralized burst ; Centralized ring ; Circled globe ; Circular ties ; Elliptical implosion ; Flow chart ; Organic rhizome ; Redial convergence ; Radial implosion ; Ramifications ; Scaling circles ; Segmented radial convergence ; Sphere -- Complex beauty : Holism ; Complexity encoding ; Ordered complexity ; Networkism -- Looking a ahead : Seeing the world in data / Nathan Yau ; The fall and rise of ambient visualization / Andrew Vande Moere ; Cybernetics revisited: toward a collective intelligence / Christopher Kirwan ; Reflexive ecologies: visualizing priorities / David McConville. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-262) and index. |
| LCCN | 2010051250 |
| ISBN | 9781568989365 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1568989369 (alk. paper) |
| Standard identifier# | 40019825295 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laupus | Books - Stacks | TK 5105.5 L732V 2011 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |