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The problem is that this is an ad hoc solution. What I'm talking about would be some formalization of visualization (I guess kinda like grammar of graphics with
by adamnemecek 9y ago
The problem is that this is an ad hoc solution. What I'm talking about would be some formalization of visualization (I guess kinda like grammar of graphics without the statistical aspect) so you can visualize just about anything.
- minimaxir 9y ago“Visualizing just about anything” isn’t helpful if you want to learn from the visualization, though. (c.f the /r/dataisbeautiful subreddit nowadays: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/top/?sort=top&t=month https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/top/?sort=top&t=mon...) That’s not to say that a purely artistic data visualization has no value, but it’s not academic. (I admit I am guilty of that at times)
- adamnemecek 9y agoData visualization is only a part of it. I'm talking about visualizing concepts.
- posterboy 9y agoStructure is data
- dlwdlw 9y agoI feel like visualizations rely too much on the existence of a meaningful isomorphism. That is, once a problem is visualized effectively it becomes trivial and though applicable to future similar problems the isomorphism itself is too domain specific to be generalized. It feels like trying to find an analogy that will help you find all future analogies.
- adamnemecek 9y agoI do agree with this sentiment very much but at the same time I do feel like no one has really given it a good shake.
- posterboy 9y agoIsn't that what category theory is about, on the meta level, and in the result in case of specific isomorphisms, too? edit: at that I still have John C. Baez, Mike Stay - "Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone" on my reading list https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0340 https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0340