I'll be honest- I had some trouble getting through this reading set, the material was not jumping out at me as it had in the previous reading sets. I had a hard time looking at and focusing on the graphically excellent examples, which perhaps is why I am struggling with my own data set. What I did come away from it with however was what I read at the very end. The Principles of Graphical Excellence, a checklist of sorts to reference while working. Key lines to me were first and the last. "Graphical Excellence is the well-designed presentation of interesting data- a matter of substance, of statistics, and of design." and "graphical excellence requires telling the truth about the data." I imagine I'll be checking this list again before my poster is complete.
The second reading - Brief Notes on the Art and Manor of Arranging One's Books- was more interesting to me in concept than in actuality, maybe that's simply because I could not to relate to the scale of book organization that the author was referencing. That said, perhaps the idea went over my head, but what it did make me think about was the impulse to organize any type of collection, not merely books. How do you display something you hold dear, want people to see, have a lot of? There are so many options and I think the point the author kept returning to was that it isn't the final organization that is important or what really matters to us, it is the process and what we find along the way. We appreciate our own collections by looking at them, and we do this while we organize and interact with them on a much greater level than if they were just thrown haphazardly about.
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