¿Cómo crece el conocimiento? A veces comienza con una idea y crece en muchas ramas. El experto en infografía Manuel Lima explora los mil años de historia de la cartografía de datos, desde las lenguas hasta las dinastías, que utilizan árboles de información. Es una fascinante historia de visualizaciones, y una mirada a la urgencia de la humanidad de cartografiar lo que sabemos.
Gallery: Gorgeous networks that help us understand the world
Arte y Diseño Galería: Maravillosas Redes que nos ayudan a comprender el Mundo
Map of Science
Another graphic showing the connections between scientific disciplines, this one was based on the way people read scientific papers online; its makers analyzed nearly a billion user interactions to make the map of connections. “In the 1300s there were trees of science; this one uses the network metaphor to create the intertwined links between domains,” says Lima
Here’s another representation of knowledge transfer, this time within the Seattle Public Library. The visual shows renting patterns, based on the Dewey Decimal classification system beloved by librarians everywhere. The bigger the circle, the more people borrowing books or media in that category. Image courtesy of Syed Reza Ali.
This 2007 map by Chris Harrison shows 63,779 cross-references found in the Bible. The bar graph on the bottom represents chapters (the longer the bar, the more verses in the chapter). Each cross-reference is depicted as a single arc with different colors used to reflect the distance between references. Image courtesy of Chris Harrison.
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