1. In this reading, it is shown that parallelism is effected when the object being analyzed is repeated multiple times. How does one know how many repetitions is necessary?
2. How important is it for the objects to be within eyespan at the same moment? What determines when the objects should be separated from view?
3. What are some examples of parallelism used in architecture?
4. What are ways to avoid unparallelisms?
5. How can unparallelisms be used to our advantage?
Sparklines:
1. Do you think it is important to have text accompanying a sparkine? Do you personally find more or less text to be compelling?
2. How long would you imagine it takes a sparkline to become legible without text? For example, we all recognize the sparkline fora heartbeat, would you say that is legible without text? Or should numerical values accompany it to make it legible?
3. In the reading at the bottom of page 49 there is an excerpt from Galileo's discovery of Saturn's shape that integrates images into the text. Would you find readings more interesting/ would your comprehension of material be increased if small sparklines were integrated into educational texts or articles? Do you think that "non-visual" learners would also benefit from the inclusion of sparklines?
4. On page 51 of the reading, financial data from a group of 10 mutual funds is formatted on the page in 2 ways: 1- as a table of nouns and numbers, and 2-as a series of sparklines. Personally, the sparklines are easier to understand, and I could consider making a decision about mutual funds with less doubt than I would from the table above. Why do you think this way of representing data (sparklines) has not become common practice?
5. Which element of sparkline design do you think is the most important. (Elements found on pages 60-63) Aspect Ratio, Dequantification, Production Methods, Unintentional Optical Clutter, Resolution of sparklines, Resolution of Layouts of Multiple Sparklines.
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