Infographics might seem like a advanced phenomenon — citizen of the internet love nothing more than a nice and tidy presentation of catchy stats — but data viz date right smart , right smart back . InThe Book of Trees : Visualizing Branches of Knowledge , fundamental interaction designerManuel Limaexamines a recurring report : more than eight one C ’ Charles Frederick Worth of Tree used as diagrams , and why botanic iconography has live on from those early days through to the digital revolution .
Lima , who also authoredVisual Complexity , charts the motif through mythology and folklore , as a celestial and religious symbolization , follow family furrow and genealogies , open - source software class , and , well — passably much anything that can be quantify can be , and has been , given the tree diagram - intervention in some figurative or abstract configuration .
The book come out in April ( pre - orderhere ) , but I have to check it out a minuscule early and I ’ve break up out some of my favorites submission .
Tree of Science from Ramon Llull , Arbol de laciencia de el iluminado maestroRaymundo Lulio , 1663
The Computer Tree from Electronic Computers withinthe Ordnance Corps by Karl Kempf , 1961
X - Men Family Tree by Joe Stone , 2011
Tree of consanguinity by Loyset Liédet , 1471
The Tree of Man ’s Life by John Goddard , ca . 1639–50
Word Tree by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas , 2008 . Here ’s every sentence in the Word of God that begin with : “ And God . ”
Writing Without intelligence by Stefanie Provosec , 2008 . Whoa . This baby was hired hand - pull , and maps the structure of Part One of Kerouac ’s On the Road .
The Tree of Life by Yifan Hu ( AT&T Labs — Research ) , 2011 . datum from the Tree of Life Web Project , a large online collaborative effort on biodiversity was used to create this An chart depicting thephylogeny of 93,891 organism .
Hellenic Mythology Family Tree by Severino Ribecca , 2011
Treebolic by Bernard Bou , 2003 . A depiction of the animal kingdom , divided by year and specie .
Chart Showing the PrincipalConstituent chemical element of thePopulation of Each State by Francis A. Walker , 1874 . This was compiled using info from the 9th U.S. census , divided into squares for foreign - born , native lily-white , and native non - white residents .
Tweetgeister by Brent Schneeman , 2010 . A visualization that reveals clustersof concept within Twitter that seek todiagram how hashtagged tweets associate to oneanother , base on semantic similarities .
The Champions Ring by Deroy Peraza ( Hyperakt ) , 2012
whirlpool , from Principia Philosophiae by René Descartes , 1644 . An exemplification of the Cartesian system of vortices , a seventeenth - century account of the world where “ big maelstrom of flimsy or ethereal topic that were suppose to move the planets and their planet by contact . ”
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