A Zoo of Tools
Bill Wake
5-30-95
This is intended to be a catalog of intellectual tools: various
graphs, maps, charts, and other external memory aids. The
categorization is rough; when I get enough tools to be interesting
I'll taxonomize them.
People & Ideas to Explore
- Anything from music, poetry, sonification?
- Tukey - EDA
- M. E. Spear - Charting Statistics, 1952
- Bertin
- Maps - physical vs. abstract. Does changing the location of an
entity affect the information it represents?
- Parallelism and annotation. Text streams might support parallel
structures (e.g., synoptic gospels). Annotation often takes the
form of pointers between matching parts, or shadowed copies of the
main item.
- Hierarchies and trees. There are many representations of
hierarchies eg., trees and outlines. Are there other structures
that share this notion?
- Tables vs. graphs. Some tables can take an almost graph-like
form.
- Book on concept maps and hypertext - what was it?
- Scott Kim [GEB]
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