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From the Vaults: How to Speak Visualization
In English, we use many different words to describe the same basic objects. In one survey, researchers Dieth and Orton explored which words were used for the place where a farmer might keep his cow,...
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Vega: A New Grammar-Based Specification for Visualizations
I’m a big fan of using languages for visualization rather than canned chart types. I’ve been working with the Grammar of Graphics approach for a number of years within SPSS and now IBM, and my book...
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Every Now and Again, a Pie can be Good
It is hard to find anyone in visualization today with much time for pie charts. In fact it seems de rigueur to disdain them. And yet we see an awful lot of them. Now, I’m not going to claim that they...
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Comics and Visualization
Comics and Visualization Although this book is over a decade old now (and Scott has a number of later books that follow on from this one), this is still a highly valuable book to read, getting great...
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Appropriate Mappings
Vox Article on viral memes and charitable giving First, a disclaimer. This is not a post about the actual issues this article raises; just about the presentation of those claims. The image from the...
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