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Jacques Bertin
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“Graphic representation constitutes one of the basic sign-systems conceived by the human mind for the purposes of storing, understanding, and communicating essential information. As a "language" for the eye, graphics benefits from the ubiquitous properties of visual perception. As a monosemic system, it forms the rational part of the world of images.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To analyse graphic representation precisely, it is helpful to distinguish it from musical, verbal and mathematical notations, all of which are perceived in a linear or temporal sequence. The graphic image also differs from figurative representation essentially polysemic, and from the animated image, governed by the laws of cinematographic time. Within the boundaries of graphics fall the fields of networks, diagrams and maps. The domain of graphic imagery ranges from the depiction of atomic structures to the representation of galaxies and extends into the spheres of topography and cartography.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Graphics owes its special significance to its double function as a storage mechanism and a research instrument.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And now, at the end of the twentieth century, with the pressure of modern information and the advances of data processing, graphics is passing through a new and fundamental stage. The great difference between the graphic representation of yesterday, which was poorly dissociated from the figurative image, and the graphics of tomorrow, is the disappearance of the congential fixity of the image.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are as many types of questions as components in the information.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Information is the reply to a question.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Overall level questions involved an] understanding of the deep structure of the data being presented in their totality, usually comparing trends and seeing groupings.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 16; as cited in: Stacy Kathryn Keller (2008) Levels of Line Graph Question Interpretation.... p. 6
“The plane is the mainstay of all graphic representation. It is so familiar that its properties seem self-evident, but the most familiar things are often the most poorly understood. The plane is homogeneous and has two dimensions. The visual consequences of these properties must be fully explored.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the correspondences on the plane can be established between:”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the correspondences on the plane can be established among all the divisions of the same component, the construction is a network.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Bertin's 'color' refers to] the repertoire of colored sensations which can be produced at equal value.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 61, as cited in: Jörg von Engelhardt (2002). The Language of Graphics: : A Framework for the Analysis of Syntax and Meaning in Maps, Charts and Diagrams. p. 27
“Value perception dominates color perception.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If, in order to obtain a correct and complete answer to a given question, all other things being equal, one construction requires a shorter observation time than another construction, we can say that it is more efficient for this question.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 139: Bertin’s definition of efficiency as cited in: Naomi B. Robbins (2009) Creating More Effective Graphs
“The aim of the graphic is to make the relationship among previously defined sets appear.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A graphic is a diagram when correspondences on the plane can be established among all elements of another component.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A graphic is not 'drawn' once and for all; it is 'constructed' and reconstructed until it reveals all the relationships constituted by the interplay of the data.... A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision-making.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 16 as cited in: Denis Wood, John Fels (1992), The power of maps. p. 216
“[The special properties of visual perception of data]... is the visual means of resolving logical problems.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 16 as cited in: Riccardo Mazza (2004) Introduction to Information Visualisation
“As with any graphic, networks are used in order to discover pertinent troups of to inform others of the groups and structures discovered. It is a good means of displaying structures, However, it ceases to be a means of discovery when the elements are numerous. The figure rapidly becomes complex, illegible and untransformable.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The author has the reputation of being against color. I am indeed against color when it masks incompetence; when it allows the superimposition of characteristics to the point of absurdity; when people believe it capable of representing ordered data.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 222; partly cited in: Laura R. Novick and Sean M. Hurley (2001) "To Matrix, Network, or Hierarchy: That Is the Question" in: Cognitive Psychology 42, 158–216 (2001)
“The use of computers shouldn’t ignore the objectives of graphics, that are:”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The problem that still remains to be solved is that of the orderable matrix, that needs the use of imagination... When the two components of a data table are orderable, the normal construction is the orderable matrix. Its permutations show the analogy and the complementary nature that exist between the algorithmic treatments and the graphical treatments.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Data is transformed into graphics to understand. A map, a diagram are documents to be interrogated. But understanding means integrating all of the data. In order to do this it’s necessary to reduce it to a small number of elementary data. This is the objective of the “data treatment” be it graphic or mathematic.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As with any graphic, networks are used in order to discover pertinent troups of to inform others of the groups and structures discovered. It is a good means of displaying structures, However, it ceases to be a means of discovery when the elements are numerous. The figure rapidly becomes complex, illegible and untransformable.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source