Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding. Standards of excellence for information design are set by high quality maps , with diverse bountiful detail, several layers of close reading combined with an overview, and rigorous data from engineering surveys. In contrast, the usual chartjunk performances look more like posters than maps. Posters are meant for viewing from a distance, with their strong images, large type, and thin data densities. Thus poster design provides very little counsel for making diagrams that are read more intensely.
Wisdom is a putting together, knowledge a taking apart.
Wisdom synthesizes and integrates, knowledge analyzes and differentiates. Both wisdom and knowledge are based on experience, but wisdom more so than knowledge, which frequently retains experience only through the filter of conceptual thought, at times discarding the seeds of life. When I stopped waiting for something 'significant' to happen, and instead began noticing what was happening, not what I wished was happening, a series of small miracles occurred. That is part of education. For belief is not fact.