Chapters IN Focus

I found chapters 1 and 3 to be quite interesting. They presented some good information on paying attention to details that I think we should all be aware of as we start to design the imagery for our systems. Chapter 1 was a bit more helpful in giving background into the wide range of ways we can use visual information to present all sorts of information, as well as the visual elements that should be combined with those visualizations in order for all the viewers to understand fully what is being depicted.(The developing storm example) Chapter 3 was interesting as it talked about how to illustrate accurately, the "magic lessons" was less pertinent in a way, but I suppose one must know how to do the trick in order to understand what is trying to be depicted in the illustrations. The supporting information in chapter 3 was very useful to consider when illustrating anything.

On a side note:
I found chapter 2 to be of interest as well beacuse my system deals with data that could be taken and portrayed in some of the same ways as the Cholera outbreak Map.

Overall it was a good read when combined with thinking about how to illustrate my own system.