Visual Analytics - An Interaction of Sight and Thought - JMP

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Leonardo da Vinci For some four hundred or five hundred years we have had our schools teaching basically the skills of the medieval clerk—reading, writing, counting, and memorizing texts. Now it seems that we might be on the verge of a new era, when we will wish to, and be required to, emphasize a very different set of skills—those of a Renaissance man such as Leonardo da Vinci. With such a change, traits that are considered desirable today might very well be obsolete and unwanted tomorrow. In place of the qualities desired in a well-trained clerk, we might, instead, find preferable a habit of innovation in many diverse fields, the perspective of the global generalist rather than the narrowly focused specialist, and an emphasis on visual content and analysis over parallel verbal modes. If we continue to turn out people who primarily have the skills (and outlook) of the clerk, however well trained, we may increasingly be turning out people who will, like the unskilled laborer of the last century, have less and less to sell in the marketplace. Sometime in the not too distant future machines will be the best clerks. It will be left to humans to maximize what is most valued among human capabilities and what machines cannot do—and increasingly these are likely to involve the insightful and integrative capacities associated with visual modes of thought. (In the Mind’s Eye, Thomas G. West, 2009)
Many people who struggle with dyslexia (difficulty reading) are exceptional visual thinkings, often because they develop visual thinking skills to to a greater degree than the rest of us to make up for their inability to read. Thomas West does a wonderful job of describing this in his book In the Mind’s Eye.
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