Visual Intelligence

• Author : Ann Marie Barry
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release : 01 January 1997

Cuts across perceptual psychology, art, television, film, literature, advertising, and political communication to give the reader critical insight into the holistic logic and emotional power of the images that dominate our lives.

• Author : Mark Stacey,Joe Salvatore,Adam Jorgensen
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 10 April 2013

Go beyond design concepts and learn to build state-of-the-art visualizations The visualization experts at Microsoft's Pragmatic Works have created a full-color, step-by-step guide to building specific types of visualizations. The book thoroughly covers the Microsoft toolset for data analysis and visualization, including Excel, and explores best practices for choosing a data visualization design, selecting tools from the Microsoft stack, and building a dynamic data visualization from start to finish. You'll examine different types of visualizations, their strengths and weaknesses, and

• Author : Russell Gerald Johnston
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 14 June 2012

Random Wisdom is a collection of thoughts and insights from some of the greatest minds of modern and ancient times, painstakingly collected and compiled by one man in his unquenchable thirst for knowledge. This collection of literary tidbits will educate, inspire, and entertain the reader with its wide range of subjects, wit, and timeless anecdotes. As the title suggests, the information presented is randomly organized and is meant to serve as an inspirational reference book. The thousands of entries are

• Author : Bart Czernicki
• Publisher : Apress
• Release : 02 February 2011

Business intelligence (BI) software is the code and tools that allow you to view different components of a business using a single visual platform, making comprehending mountains of data easier. Applications that include reports, analytics, statistics, and historical and predictive modeling are all examples of BI applications. Currently, we are in the second generation of BI software, called BI 2.0. This generation is focused on writing BI software that is predictive, adaptive, simple, and interactive. As computers and software have evolved,

• Author : Joanna Boehnert
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 08 February 2018

Design, Ecology, Politics links social and ecological theory to design theory and practice, critiquing the ways in which the design industry perpetuates unsustainable development. Boehnert argues that when design does engage with issues of sustainability, this engagement remains shallow, due to the narrow basis of analysis in design education and theory. The situation is made more severe by design cultures which claim to be apolitical. Where design education fails to recognise the historical roots of unsustainable practice, it reproduces old

• Author : Kenneth L. Smith,Sandra Moriarty,Keith Kenney,Gretchen Barbatsis
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 13 December 2004

This Handbook of Visual Communication explores the key theoretical areas in visual communication, and presents the research methods utilized in exploring how people see and how visual communication occurs. With chapters contributed by many of the best-known and respected scholars in visual communication, this volume brings together significant and influential work in the visual communication discipline. The theory chapters included here define the twelve major theories in visual communication scholarship: aesthetics, perception, representation, visual rhetoric, cognition, semiotics, reception theory, narrative,

• Author : Rick Williams,Julianne Newton
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 04 March 2009

A well-rounded education in the 21st century requires not just verbal and mathematical proficiency, but also the ability to interpret, critique, create, and use visual communication on sophisticated levels. In today’s visual world, it is critically important to hold an appreciation for the profound effects imagery has on individuals and the communities in which they live. Visual Communication focuses on cultivating visual and media literacy from both consumption and production points of view and introduces students to the application

• Author : J. Michael Spector
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release : 29 January 2015

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Technology examines information on leveraging the power of technology to support teaching and learning. While using innovative technology to educate individuals is certainly not a new topic, how it is approached, adapted, and used toward the services of achieving real gains in student performance is extremely pertinent. This two-volume encyclopedia explores such issues, focusing on core topics and issues that will retain relevance in the face of perpetually evolving devices, services, and specific techniques. As

• Author : Bart Czernicki
• Publisher : Apress
• Release : 27 January 2011

Business intelligence (BI) software allows you to view different components of a business using a single visual platform, which makes comprehending mountains of data easier. BI is everywhere. Applications that include reports, analytics, statistics, and historical and predictive modeling are all examples of business intelligence. Currently, we are in the second generation of business intelligence software—called BI 2.0—which is focused on writing business intelligence software that is predictive, adaptive, simple, and interactive. As computers and software have evolved, more

• Author : Elena Xeni
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 22 July 2019

• Author : Roberto Cipolla,Sebastiano Battiato,Giovanni Maria Farinella
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 27 July 2012

Computer vision is the science and technology of making machines that see. It is concerned with the theory, design and implementation of algorithms that can automatically process visual data to recognize objects, track and recover their shape and spatial layout. The International Computer Vision Summer School - ICVSS was established in 2007 to provide both an objective and clear overview and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art research in Computer Vision. The courses are delivered by world renowned experts in the

• Author : Donis A Dondis
• Publisher : MIT Press
• Release : 15 September 1974

This primer is designed to teach students the interconnected arts of visual communication. The subject is presented, not as a foreign language, but as a native one that the student "knows" but cannot yet "read." Responding to the need she so clearly perceives, Ms. Dondis, a designer and teacher of broad experience, has provided a beginning text for art and design students and a basic text for all other students; those who do not intend to become artists or designers

• Author : James Flood,Diane Lapp,Shirley Brice Heath
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 22 September 2004

In an era characterized by the rapid evolution of the concept of literacy, the Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts focuses on multiple ways in which learners gain access to knowledge and skills. The handbook explores the possibilities of broadening current conceptualizations of literacy to include the full array of the communicative arts (reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing) and to focus on the visual arts of drama, dance, film, art, video, and computer technology.

• Author : Norris Ray Peery
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 07 July 2022

A journey through the forest that composes the inner-self. Daring forbidden insights that cut to the bone of truth of what we are, how we are, and why we are what we are. We are covered by "The Thin Skin of Civilization," but here is revealed what lies beneath that skin.

• Author : Alan Male
• Publisher : AVA Publishing
• Release : 10 July 2007

"This book examines the breadth and use of illustration... Targeting the latter stages of undergraduate development and post-graduate study there is a particular focus on theory, research, conceptual processing, visual language analysis and the contexts of illustration practice. It also introduces the concept of illustrator as a specialist or authority on a particular subject or as an originator of either fiction and/or non-fiction material"--Back cover.