Cultural Analytics page 197 Visualization without reduction aka Direct visualization
- Please refer to my previous post: R and ggplot2: What if, as recommended by Cultural Analytics, I used the actual text to make the graphic instead of converting the text to numbers i.e. colours
- From Cultural Analytics (book website) page 197-198:
- “Although these techniques and projects are commonly discussed as information visualization, is it possible that they represent something else … a new broad visualization method for which we do not yet have an adequate name.”
- “Images remain images; text remains text. …we can also call this method direct visualization or visualization without reduction.”
- Direct Visualization is what I created in: R and ggplot2: As per Cultural Analytics: Firefox Support Questions for an hour with x set to the minute the question was asked, logo plus 5 tokens from the question