Comments on: Gilbane 2007 – Finding Information in the Workplace http://zakiwarfel.com/archives/gilbane-2007-finding-information-in-the-workplace/ Thoughts on research, design and prototyping methods. Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:55:49 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Todd Zaki Warfel http://zakiwarfel.com/archives/gilbane-2007-finding-information-in-the-workplace/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Todd Zaki Warfel Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:30:54 +0000 http://toddwarfel.com/archives/gilbane-2007-finding-information-in-the-workplace/#comment-139 I couldn't agree more, Thomas. I couldn’t agree more, Thomas.

]]> By: vanderwal http://zakiwarfel.com/archives/gilbane-2007-finding-information-in-the-workplace/comment-page-1/#comment-138 vanderwal Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:27:28 +0000 http://toddwarfel.com/archives/gilbane-2007-finding-information-in-the-workplace/#comment-138 The exact name for these is "Box and Wiskers", which have been around for dog years (picked up in 1st semester to graduate quantitative methods in 1993). There really needs to be (or maybe need to find) a history of information graphic elements. The "tag cloud" has been around for well over 15 years, but known as visually weighted variable sets and there was research on best uses in 1993 (or prior). In grad school we had to be very conversant in Tufte's approaches, but were warned then that his approaches were best for print and he was not a good historian on info graphics (did not provide attribution well). Tufte does open the doors to visual display of data well for those that are not familiar (like grad students doing deep dives in quantitative methods for social discovery). The exact name for these is “Box and Wiskers”, which have been around for dog years (picked up in 1st semester to graduate quantitative methods in 1993).

There really needs to be (or maybe need to find) a history of information graphic elements. The “tag cloud” has been around for well over 15 years, but known as visually weighted variable sets and there was research on best uses in 1993 (or prior). In grad school we had to be very conversant in Tufte’s approaches, but were warned then that his approaches were best for print and he was not a good historian on info graphics (did not provide attribution well). Tufte does open the doors to visual display of data well for those that are not familiar (like grad students doing deep dives in quantitative methods for social discovery).

]]> By: Todd Zaki Warfel http://zakiwarfel.com/archives/gilbane-2007-finding-information-in-the-workplace/comment-page-1/#comment-137 Todd Zaki Warfel Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:42:04 +0000 http://toddwarfel.com/archives/gilbane-2007-finding-information-in-the-workplace/#comment-137 I'd never heard of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_plot" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">box plot</a> before. But it does seem very similar. I actually adapted some models from Tufte's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0961392142?ie=UTF8&tag=toddwarfel-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0961392142" rel="nofollow">The Visual Display of Quantitative Information</a> for this. I don't recall if he referred to the models I adopted for this as box plots or not. But after reading up on them, it does appear to be very similar. I’d never heard of a box plot before. But it does seem very similar. I actually adapted some models from Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information for this. I don’t recall if he referred to the models I adopted for this as box plots or not. But after reading up on them, it does appear to be very similar.

]]> By: Richard Dalton http://zakiwarfel.com/archives/gilbane-2007-finding-information-in-the-workplace/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Richard Dalton Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:34:08 +0000 http://toddwarfel.com/archives/gilbane-2007-finding-information-in-the-workplace/#comment-136 This is very similar (identical?) to a box plot isn't it? This is very similar (identical?) to a box plot isn’t it?

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