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What an awesome weekend read ) (I may be a taxonomy and conceptual model freak, so this is just what I needed. Not coffee. This.)

You've managed to take rather common concepts and organize them in a way that helps me think about projects I work on or see around. It makes me look for answers – what models have bigger or smaller focus in the project and how that influences the project, its understanding or just branding.

I would like to ask you about the IPCC's risk visualization. I agree that when it comes to easy readability / understandability of the chart, it's so custom that one needs to learn how to read it and we can't build to much on our existing models. What I wasn't sure was if by "an egregious example" you mean just the level of our existing mental models of how to read visualization or whether you find the chart really bad overall? Because I actually find it really helpful (of course after learning how to read it, hh) and I was wondering if you would see a better way to display such information given the complexity of the topic / data and uncertainties that there are.

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Mar 31, 2022·edited Mar 31, 2022

Thanks for the insightful post.

Do you think we can achieve a better visualisation model by utilising semantic icons and visual metaphors for laypeople? How do we measure that? Using performance metrics with non-experts who look at visualisations for non-work related tasks is not the best option. How do we balance between the two and measure their understanding without interference with their interaction?

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