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How does knowledge grow?
Sometimes it begins with one insight and grows into many branches; other times it grows as a complex and interconnected network. Infographics expert Manuel Lima explores the thousand-year history of mapping data -- from languages to dynasties -- using trees and networks of information.
It's a fascinating history of visualizations, and a look into humanity's urge to map what we know. Via Kenneth Mikkelsen, Ricard Lloria 
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It’s tempting to consider information visualization a relatively new field that rose in response to the demands of the Internet generation. But, argues Manual Lima in The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge, “as with any domain of knowledge, visualizing is built on a prolonged succession of efforts and events.” Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
Kenneth Mikkelsen's curator insight,
September 16, 2014 7:53 PM
In the Renaissance, the philosophers Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes, used tree diagrams to describe dense classification arrangements. Trees really became popular as a method of communicating and changing minds with Charles Darwin. |
