{"id":5817,"date":"2015-06-04T22:36:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T22:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5817"},"modified":"2015-06-15T16:02:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:02:58","slug":"diymatrix-bertins-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5817","title":{"rendered":"diyMatrix: Bertin&#8217;s Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bertin-machine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5827\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bertin-machine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"bertin machine\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bertin-machine-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bertin-machine.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have long been interested in Jacques Bertin, a pioneer in thinking about visualization. His\u00a0<em>Semiology of Graphics\u00a0<\/em>is a classic. I had been thinking it would be great to try or simulate his way of doing cluster analysis with physical matrices which he called &#8220;dominos&#8221;. I was therefore pleased to see that someone has recreated his matrices, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviz.fr\/diyMatrix\/\">DIY Matrix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Perin, Pierre Dragicevic, and Jean-Daniel Fekete have updated the matrices and fabricated a version for a CHI&#8217;15 workshop on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviz.fr\/diyMatrix\/data\/diymatrix.pdf\">Investigating the Challenges of Making Data Physical (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:\u00a0<\/strong>They also have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviz.fr\/bertifier\">web application called Bertifier<\/a> that allows you to try it virtually.\u00a0This interactive allows you to choose different ways of decorating the blocks and will then also reorder them. It is fascinating to play with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/interactiveBertin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5841\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/interactiveBertin-300x163.png\" alt=\"interactiveBertin\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/interactiveBertin-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/interactiveBertin-1024x556.png 1024w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/interactiveBertin.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I have something I want to print on a fabricator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have long been interested in Jacques Bertin, a pioneer in thinking about visualization. His\u00a0Semiology of Graphics\u00a0is a classic. I had been thinking it would be great to try or simulate his way of doing cluster analysis with physical matrices which he called &#8220;dominos&#8221;. I was therefore pleased to see that someone has recreated his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5817\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">diyMatrix: Bertin&#8217;s Manual<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,43,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-fabrication","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5842,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions\/5842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}