Information Design Journal

Volume 17, Issue 3 (2009)

2009. ii, 127 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.17.3

Table of Contents

Introduction Peter Simlinger	161–162
Articles
Decisions, ideas and text clouds Virginia Tiradentes Souto	163–175
Patterns that connect: The value of mapping complex data networks Paul Kahn	176–187
From data and measures to meaningful decisions: Designing useful information for senior managers and boards Julian Jenkins	188–201
What if …..? Designing tools to help the public make difficult decisions Patricia Wright	202–210
Isotype representing social facts pictorially Christopher Burke	211–223
CityRank: A dynamic tool for exploring and generating new indices of cities Seth Flaxman	224–234
Going green at home: The Green Machine Aaron Marcus and Jérémie Jean	235–243
Social mobility in Mexico: Graphs that help understanding the relation between education and socio-economic level Maria González de Cossío	246–260
Visual representation and communication: A case study on fertility rates Tingyi S. Lin	261–272
Research and design watch	273–275
Book reviews
Howard Wainer. Picturing the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display Reviewed by Wibke Weber	276–277
Designers' workshop Reviewed by Keiichi Koyama	278
Robert Spence. Information Visualization Design for Interaction Reviewed by Lisa Ehrenstrasser	279–280
Bo Bergström. Essentials of visual communication Reviewed by Robert Waller	281
Contents of Volume 17	282–286

Subjects

Communication Studies

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Psychology

Cognitive psychology