problem 7: aesthetics

This from “infosthetics.com”:http://infosthetics.com

bq. problem 7: aesthetics. the purpose of information visualization is the insights into data that it provides, not just pretty pictures. but what makes a picture pretty? what can we learn from making a pretty picture & enhancing the representation of insights? it’s important, therefore, to understand how insights & aesthetics interact, & these two goals could sustain insightful & visually appealing information visualization.

“continue reading”:http://infosthetics.com/archives/2005/08/information_vis_2.html for a short description of the other 9 ‘unsolved information visualization problems’.