I ironically love this and think it's (un)intentially hilarious. It's basically everything people who think very seriously about infoviz warn about, crammed into a single terrible visualization on the subject of visualization. It's such an erudite accumulation of inexpert concepts it almost has to have been put together (paradoxically) by an expert in the field. I looked it up, and indeed it was put together by a cou…
Wait, is it parody? I would agree if it was, but I assumed it was serious, and kinda bad. Their “knowledge maps” page on the site looks similar - the examples are ugly & awful. https://www.visual-literacy.org/maps/ This all looks like it’s intended to be serious, considered good by the authors, especially considering the associated academic publication, and not some kind of intentionally funny commentary on bad visua…
I understand that much of this material is relatively old, but we actually were better back then.
The "tell" to me (if this is parody) is the percent of the audience here who can't tell if this is serious, or good, or not.
Perhaps somebody should count the comments and put them in a pie chart inside of a pie store and call it "HN taste tests visual-literacy.org".
Okay, I'm calling it, this is a very inside joke page of some sort.
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Shneiderman#Designing_the_...