The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization (Voices That Matter)

the mechanisms of detecting basic features, also called preattentive features.

The goal here is to help readers identify general patterns of concentration of Democratic and Republican votes.

Start with a strong focus, do as much research as you can, organize, summarize, and then deliver your conclusions in a structured and visually appealing manner.

The second level of encoding takes us from data to structured information.

there are at least three models that explain how the brain recognizes objects and creatures. The models are not mutually exclusive, but work complementarily.

wisdom when we achieve a deep understanding of acquired knowledge,

All the history of information displays and statistical graphics—indeed of any communication device—is entirely a progress of methods for enhancing density, complexity, dimensionality, and even sometimes beauty.4

Data are records of observations.

Objects linked by means of a graphic artifice, such as a line, will be perceived as members of a natural group.