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This next image is taken from a project to visualize the global airline transportation
network consisting of all commercial flights worldwide. The routes highlighted
are those flights in and out of Toronto Pearson airport. The project was designed to
assess the threat of infectious diseases.
Image from "Toronto Flight Lines" ( http://www.biodiaspora.com/ ) created by Bio.Diaspora 2012
The design does not intend to offer an analytical summary of air travel statistics.
Instead it creates a more immersive experience in to the data, offering a visual
interface to establish a greater sense of how interconnected the world is through
air travel. It causes us to imagine just how easy it could be for diseases to spread
across the globe in a short period of time.
For more emotive visualizations, you might be seeking to generate a different
type of emotional connection with the design. This connection comes both at
the start of the engagement—creating attraction and appeal—as well as after
the engagement—the outcome.
In contrast to pragmatic works, as we described in the introduction, here we
might be seeking to achieve impact, to emphasize issues, and perhaps to engender
shock. We might also seek to generate a certain amount of visual attention through
novelty and innovation in a way that more pragmatic approaches would not be
able to achieve.
 
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