[Sigia-l] Information Visualization

[CD Evans]

Wow.

You are all spinning your argumentative tires in very deep mud.

InfoVis has huge potential. We can all agree on that. But it is only potential.

There is no point in trying to recreate Map of the Market 3 years 
later for deliveries, phone calls or books. It just won't work. At 
least not on today's budgets. I am glad that this list is active, and 
that the traffic is thoughtful, but could we perhaps discuss how to 
visualize something practical instead of arguing about how you would 
have to sell visualization to a client? This is brainy stuff, not 
sales stuff. We need to work together to figure it out.

Seriously. Can we discuss a possible application?

What about if email could be visualized.... ?

Or blogs.... ?

I'd like to see the theory regarding 'agents' tied into this thread. 
A visualization agent would likely be able to give me the email 
overview I need, so that my coffee doesn't keep going cold.

CD Evans

Then we would have a real discussion.

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"Listera" wrote:

"Eric Reiss" wrote:

>  Amazing that so many think it's all about information retrieval.

>  Don't know about that but in order
>  to understand you need to retrieve the
>  info first. When you retrieve lots of info,
>  unfortunately, it all breaks
>  down, hence the focus on that part of the problem.

Yeah, but anyone with any brain cells can tell that "codecs" [insert 
technical jargon word of choice] will eventually
take care of that.

-cc