| Summary: | "The purpose of this book is to collect in a single volume the multiplicity of approaches, perspectives, and contexts in which the research project From Data to Wisdom has been developed. One of the theoretical assumptions achieved is the idea that contemporary visualizations have abandoned the desire for absolute, synthesizing depiction in favor of a representation that is always imperfect and, so to speak, “in the making.” The very idea that data visualizations are representative, i.e., that they refer to “reality” has been widely discussed and criticized as well. Our intention, therefore, is to present a series of analogies between texts and images. In short, this book will be a mise en abyme of the always incomplete synthesis, but for this very reason richer in meaning, which in our opinion is at the heart, or at least should be, of today’s visual representations of knowledge."--Contracubierta
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