Compression Quote by David Mccandless Download Open image “Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.” — David Mccandless ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compression Data Form Information Knowledge Learning Visualizing
Such compression of large amounts of information into a few exformation-rich macrostates with small quantities of nominal information are not only intelligent: they are… — Tor Nørretranders Copy Share Image
By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes: a sort of information map. And when you're… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
“Never again will you simply show data. Rather, you will create visualizations that are thoughtfully designed to impart information and incite action.” — Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic Copy Share Image
Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures. — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Visualization can be a powerful tool, yet merely pretending that something is true does not make it so. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control. — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
“Gwendolyn Galsworth writes that the purpose of visual management is to reduce "information deficits" in the workplace. She writes that "In an information-scarce workplace,… — Mark Graban Copy Share Image
Simplification seems to be the removal of objects for the goal of making a graphic as clean and uncluttered as possible. Whereas, with optimization,… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
I have a computational quality to my mind, I suppose. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with video games. I reprogrammed games,… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
I started moving into online work, and that exposed me to design and the impact it has on the flow, shape, and narrative of… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day. — David McCandless Copy Share Image
For years I thought I was just a writer, but when I sat down to design and started playing around with it, I realized… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
I'm doing a lot of cognitive processing. I'm gathering research. I'm processing it. I'm arranging the data. I'm sorting out the narrative. I'm designing.… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
Some of the commercial work I do is helping people to improve their presentations and add some design thinking. There are so many amazing… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
I've been working on a graphic about carbon emissions. It's an incredibly simple graphic - a bunch of blocks and a table below it… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
I remember researching a really complicated article and having trouble keeping track of all the different perspectives. I ended up drawing a diagram to… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
The thing I see happening is that there's a real compression between generations. There used to be about 20 years difference (in technology use).… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove through a foreground that always seemed to be incredibly dramatic… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or wimpier by… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish a sharp… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent.… — Katie Roiphe Copy Share Image
Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I like to compete in a suit that will help me save me time and energy by reducing drag, so I race in Aqua… — Timothy O'Donnell Copy Share Image
This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and Joan Didion.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Such compression of large amounts of information into a few exformation-rich macrostates with small quantities of nominal information are not only intelligent: they are… — Tor Nørretranders Copy Share Image