Click on the following link to see the visualization I am talking about:
http://www.concerthotels.com/100-years-of-rock
The infographic shows in an abstract explanation the different genres which have developed within the rock genre in the last 100 years. The lines and the date indicates a historical movement from 100 years ago until now. The use of the labels of the music genres combined with lines in the same color are is significant to not get distracted while watching it.
According to the volume of the data the infographic is highly functional and the amount of information can confuse the viewer, because even though there are lines and dates used to guide the viewer through the information, the graphic creates and overload of information because you can't remove any element without losing the content or its informative propose. At first sight the graphic seemed to be highly multidimensional for me, although if you look through it and you give it a time to understand the graphic it becomes more and more unidimensional and also novelty because it only focuses on genres and subgenres which have developed within the rock music genre and they are mentioned only once within the whole graphic. . The familiar use of lines and labels in the same color makes it in my opinion easy to read, although there is a lot of information given.
In my opinion this graphic needs time to be read and also to be understand, so using it in form of a video clip within a internet page or as a trailer for the development of different genres within the rock music are the only possibilities for me to make use of this graphic. In a magazine or newspaper the graphic would not attract the viewers attention, because all the information would have to given at once which can be confusing according to the different lines and labels. The use of a hierarchical slideshow which guides you step by step through the last century gives the viewer time to understand it.
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