[Sigia-l] Information Visualization

[Karl Fast]

> It strikes me that visualization is always (and only) the means to
> an end--understanding the information. It's not the end itself.

Bingo.

Vannevar Bush's seminal paper, "As We May Think," is one of the most
cited documents in the information visualization literature.

Don't forget that he called it "As We May Think," and not "As We May
Find Things."

If infoviz is going to deliver it must move 'beyond retrieval.'

But retrieval is tough and we've been so obsessed with it for so
long that it's hard to think about the problem in any other way.



--karl