Heidi M R03

In our reading it talks about the narrative of space and time, and how important graphs and charts can be, but not only that but that they are clear and to the point. The first example that was given was Galileo's observations of the stars and Jupiter. At first to him it seemed puzzeling that Jupiter was changing position, but after looking at the recordings of many days, he was then able to summize that it was because Jupiter was orbiting.

I think that graphs that show information in a simple way, are also very important to helping find new discoveries. If Galileo did not graph Jupiter and the star's it is possible that someone else might have and this discovery would have been later on, but since he did it in a clear manor we all were able to understand and make sense of them.

Later on in the reading it goes on to tell about map combination graphics. What I found to be the most interesting out of this was that the second map contained over 200 pages worth of information within it. It was able to show the space, but lacked a certain design element. There were so many different examples of Information Design presented in the later part of the reading. I feel that all of those examples were very successful. They not only conveyed both time and space, but held large amounts of data and the imagry used was very successful and added to the data in a possitive way.

Looking at these designs and thinking about designing our own charts at the same time helps us formulate what is a good design in information design, what can be left out, and what should be added to help the design. I found this reading to be especially helpful when looking back on my graph.