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I get that people use the word art as "difficult", "obscure" or "intangible" but...
Art is about self-expression, evoking emotions, and open interpretation. Design is about problem-solving, functionality, and clear communication.
Clearly DataViz is Design.
No, it's not an Art. I get that people use the word art as "difficult", "obscure" or "intangible" but... Art is about self-expression, evoking emotions, and open interpretation. Design is about problem-solving, functionality, and clear communication. Clearly DataViz is Design.
Take a project like this: https://www.dear-data.com/theproject... this is clearly data visualization and, to me, quite evocative. These visualizations aren't designed for clarity and they don't need to be, that wasn't the goal.
No, it's not an Art. I get that people use the word art as "difficult", "obscure" or "intangible" but... Art is about self-expression, evoking emotions, and open interpretation. Design is about problem-solving, functionality, and clear communication. Clearly DataViz is Design.
I've grown out of being impressed by flashy and difficult to understand data visualizations. I'm much more impressed by novel insight, clearly presented, in familiar ways.
Flashy trashy is just crap. Some might call it art but then again everything is art these days.
No, it's not an Art. I get that people use the word art as "difficult", "obscure" or "intangible" but... Art is about self-expression, evoking emotions, and open interpretation. Design is about problem-solving, functionality, and clear communication. Clearly DataViz is Design.
Is Design an Art?
No, it's not an Art. I get that people use the word art as "difficult", "obscure" or "intangible" but... Art is about self-expression, evoking emotions, and open interpretation. Design is about problem-solving, functionality, and clear communication. Clearly DataViz is Design.
Art is about these things, but is also about many other things. And art can be clear in its intentions, leaving little to interpret.
What is the purpose of data visualization? Often to evoke emotions and to help someone not familiar with the data understand how to interpret it.
The people who accomplish this most effectively understand that the point isn't just to force data points into a visual form. If it were so simple, more people would be good at it (they aren't).
> Clearly DataViz is Design
I don't understand this sentence. I'm not trying to be difficult, but if DataViz is Design, what is Design?
I've grown out of being impressed by flashy and difficult to understand data visualizations. I'm much more impressed by novel insight, clearly presented, in familiar ways.
I'd call what you describe as impressive, art. Flashy trashy is just crap. Some might call it art but then again everything is art these days.
When you see a broken toilet sitting in an art gallery selling for 5 million dollars and someone thinks "I could do that, this is stupid", they have completely missed the point. The art is not the broken toilet, the art is selling it for 5 million dollars - which is something the complaining person definitly cannot do. That's the art.