Emotions - provocation and manipulation

Data visualization is becoming more and more important. This fact is caused by their amount and variety. Every day millions of information are produced and stored in electronic devices. When we are not able to analyze them and make conclusion, these data are not useful. One of aims of data visualization is to make data analyzes more simple and clearly convey most important facts, connection and relations between fact. 

But there are also other import aspects in data visualization. Martin M. Wattenberg says that visualization should also attract people and stimulate them. Stimulation can be enabled also using side-technics like data sharing. This can stimulate conversation and bring deeper understanding. But putting data in facebook is not enough. When these data are not attractive, poeple will not notice them. New TV Shows showed that people are interested in emotions and impressive and expressive. Yes, i tis good way, how to attract people. Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg say that it is not necessarilly bed to put emotions in data visualisation. On the one hand they are right, because i tis good to provoke people and bring them into discussion about data, but on the other hand this visualisation can bring fallacy to people who are notu sed to discuss and impress their opinion. There is risk, that this group of people could be manipulated because they just absorb these data without realising that they absorbed somebody‘s subjective view.

Ref:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-19/opinion/sexy.data_1_visualization-21st-century-engagement/2?_s=PM:OPINION

Communication – art and way to freedom

Almost every man in this world ask himself the same questions:  „Am I happy ? How can I be happy ? How can I remove all psychical pressure from my mind ?“. The new psychology methods don’t study only illnesses anymore. They study man’s happiness, too. Results in this area shows, that source of man’s happiness is quite easily available in our everyday life. It is communication and honesty. Every one of us has his own secrets, pains, sufferings. We seem strange to ourselves and sometime we feel like the only person in the world, because we think , that nobody can understand us. We are scared of sharing our feelings with other people, because than they can judge and hurt us. Actually, this scare blocks our freedom. When we meet somebody who can hear and understand us, we feel happy. When we share our feelings with somebody, it can make us free and we understand ourselves, because when we talk about us, we can realize facts about our mind and know better our psychical part of being. But the main problem is, that maybe there is a lot of people around us, but only few of them can hear you with comprehension and understanding. It is something like art, to hear somebody, be empathic and comprehensive. We want to understand somebody, we need to imagine how it is, to walk in his shoes. We need to carefully hear every word, read the melody of man’s voice, bodylanguage and so on. Sometimes it can be really hard, because we all percept this world in our special individual way. Things that seems disgusting to us, can be very nice for somebody. It is very important to realize that man’s mind is product of genes and environment we live in. That’s the reason  why we cannot judge anybody, because we are not able to have complete control of our mind evolution. If we understand this fact, we can be very good listeners and make people around us happy. Furthermore if we see the world through their eyes, it helps us to throw away our own angers and to see the world more objective. It is up to us if we want to make our people happy and be a better human beings.