The Landscape Metaphor (27 Jun 2005)

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The Landscape Metaphor (27 Jun 2005)
The landscape metaphor, and spatialisations in general, constitute very attractive ways of representing big amounts of data in an intuitive way. The notions of distance and height are easily understood by many people, even when they encode other variables like similarity, density, or prevalence of a certain term. Let me put a nostalgic note if I say that the old newsmaps is still one of my preferred visual metaphors.

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