The Art of Data Visualization Video

This video immediately brought about the importance between the content of a piece of art and what the viewer recognizes about the content in the piece. The speaker in the video stressed a great deal right off the bat, the importance of content in a piece of art. He described that the design and style does not matter if the content is not something that can be communicated with the viewer. The content is more important to the overall message or meaning of an art piece, than the design or composition is. The history of data visualization is brought up in this video as well. The speaker alludes back to the way Galileo documented his observations about space, in which he would draw what he saw. In turn, this became defined as data visualization, since he would produce a visual representation of what he was seeing.   

I also found it interesting when the second speaker in this video brought up the way humans can communicate with others based on visualization of data. It is explained that humans are designed to recognize patterns, in which it makes sense as to why we are able to experience something when we see something visual. It was also touched on how a lot of everyday things can be put into a visual format for people to see. An example of this covered in the video would be human emotion taken over the last 3 years, in which there was a colorful collage of shapes. 

The overall message I got from watching this video is that the visualization of data is how people communicate and get messages across. Also, the way that the data is portrayed has an impact on the way that people feel about it or the overall message that is received from viewing that data. I found this video to be interesting since I have not previously thought about the impact that visual pieces have on the human mind and perception. 
                                              
                                                     

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