Comments on: As long as we’re on the subject of Edward Tufte… http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/05/13/as-long-as-were-on-the-subject-of-edward-tufte/ A posting every day; an interesting idea every three months... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:23:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: JD http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/05/13/as-long-as-were-on-the-subject-of-edward-tufte/comment-page-1/#comment-4574 JD Fri, 16 May 2003 00:48:09 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philgtest/2003/05/13/as-long-as-were-on-the-subject-of-e#comment-4574 <a></a> Philip, you should spend more time reading Tufte (and William Cleveland for that matter). Here is a link to a post on "Ask E.T." about this topic. <a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000Kf&topic_id=1">http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000Kf&topic_id=1</a>

Philip, you should spend more time reading Tufte (and William Cleveland for that matter). Here is a link to a post on “Ask E.T.” about this topic.

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000Kf&topic_id=1

]]> By: Christopher Holland http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/05/13/as-long-as-were-on-the-subject-of-edward-tufte/comment-page-1/#comment-4564 Christopher Holland Thu, 15 May 2003 08:12:02 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philgtest/2003/05/13/as-long-as-were-on-the-subject-of-e#comment-4564 <a></a> That design is attrocious. I really can't tell a thing from their graphics. Funny that you should mention the smartmoney market maps because we implemented a similar mechanism for displaying per-minute data for Chevron-Texaco's Pascagoula refinery. If you want to see an image (for curiousity's sake) we have a webpage with a couple of screenshots at http://www.concepthouse.com/products/RefVis/ . The boxes are individual components of the refinery (furnaces are shown) and the feed rate of the fuel determines the box size while the efficiency of the burn determines the color of the box. We did numerous tests with different color schemes and color styles: smooth color variations for efficiency vs. straight good/bad coloring; variations for color-blindness, etc. I figured that another application of a market map-like visualization might be interesting for your readers.

That design is attrocious. I really can’t tell a thing from their graphics.

Funny that you should mention the smartmoney market maps because we implemented a similar mechanism for displaying per-minute data for Chevron-Texaco’s Pascagoula refinery. If you want to see an image (for curiousity’s sake) we have a webpage with a couple of screenshots at http://www.concepthouse.com/products/RefVis/ .

The boxes are individual components of the refinery (furnaces are shown) and the feed rate of the fuel determines the box size while the efficiency of the burn determines the color of the box.

We did numerous tests with different color schemes and color styles: smooth color variations for efficiency vs. straight good/bad coloring; variations for color-blindness, etc.

I figured that another application of a market map-like visualization might be interesting for your readers.

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