Today’s MOTD is a truly unique representation of Jack Kerouac’s, On The Road, by Stefanie Posavec, which is entitled “Literary Organism”. A quick glance at the map, and you’ll understand that Posavec’s title is appropriate. She has executed a brilliant deconstruction of Kerouac’s famous novel, by breaking down the entire book into it’s literary elements, such as, basic structure, word count, character presence, and, my favorite, the type of event/behavior engaged in by the main characters.
As the theme for this week is multivariate analysis, this map remains a perfect example of a wide range of the subject’s elements being built into the structure and display of the information.
A quick note on something that I found interesting about this graphic was how closely the representation mirrors a structure and form that you might expect to find in nature. I couldn’t stop coming back to the idea that a beautiful novel, even when broken apart to it’s barest forms, still retains a form that’s compelling and appealing.
1 comment:
This is amazing! Thanks for posting it!
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