Douglas Roberts wrote:
Don't get me wrong: I like pretty colored splotches as much as
the next guy; I'd just prefer that my viz apps tell me something
useful about my particular application.
Sure, building useful instruments is not just an exercise in visual
design. Domain and model semantics also matter, and thus it's
ultimately the responsibility of the modeler (as opposed to, say,
toolkit developers) to design instruments to measure and transform data
in appropriate ways. That's not to say that visual design principles
don't matter, though.
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