Use spatial visualization to reveal structural properties…
Use spatial visualization to reveal structural properties of your knowledge graph that sequential text-based interfaces necessarily hide.
Why This Is a Principle
This principle is grounded in Dual Coding Theory: Verbal and Visual Channels (dual channels for verbal/visual processing), Global-to-Local Perceptual Processing (visual perception processes global before local), and Perception Automatically Chunks Elements into Clusters (perception organizes elements into clusters). It prescribes using visualization as a thinking tool, following from the axioms that humans have superior visual pattern recognition and that spatial layout enables parallel processing that text cannot provide.
Source Lessons
Graph visualization aids understanding
Seeing your knowledge graph visually reveals structures that lists and outlines hide.
Graph traversal is a thinking technique
Following connections through your knowledge graph generates new insights.
Shortest path reveals hidden connections
The shortest route between two seemingly unrelated ideas shows how they connect.