Jacques Bertin
Jacques Bertin was a French cartographer and theorist, known from his book Sémiologie Graphique, published in 1967. This monumental work, based on his experience as a cartographer and geographer, represents the first and widest intent to provide a theoretical foundation to Information Visualization, with his most lasting contribution being his set of visual variables that can be used to construct map symbols and other graphical techniques one of then being the Bertin Projection, an innovative map projection type, or to seriate them.
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Background
- Born in
- Maisons-Laffitte
- Educated at
- University of Paris
- Awards
- 🏆 Carl Mannerfelt Gold Medal🏆 Mercator Medal
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Trending topics shown first"The plane is the mainstay of all graphic representation. It is so familiar that its properties seem self-evident, but the most familiar things are often the most poorly understood. The plane is homoge…"
"Graphic representation constitutes one of the basic sign-systems conceived by the human mind for the purposes of storing, understanding, and communicating essential information. As a "language" for th…"
"And now, at the end of the twentieth century, with the pressure of modern information and the advances of data processing, graphics is passing through a new and fundamental stage. The great difference…"
"Data is transformed into graphics to understand. A map, a diagram are documents to be interrogated. But understanding means integrating all of the data. In order to do this it’s necessary to reduce it…"
"Graphics owes its special significance to its double function as a storage mechanism and a research instrument."
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1918
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