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David FultonHIT 5302 Good overview of different types of charts and how to use them effectively
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But she is also three times as wide, thus taking up nine times the area of the page.
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Edward Tufte would second Emperor Joseph II’s famous complaint to a young composer: “too many notes, Mozart.”
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Creating Good Charts
General Principles of Graphic Display
A graphical chart provides a visual display of data that otherwise would be presented in a table; a table, one that would otherwise be presented in text. Ideally, a chart should convey ideas about the data that would not be readily apparent if they were displayed in a table or as text.
The three standards for tabular display of data -- the efficient display of meaningful and unambiguous data -- apply to charts as well. As with tables, it is crucial to good charting to choose meaningful data, to clearly define what the numbers represent, and to present the data in a manner that allows the reader to quickly grasp what the data mean. As with tabular display, data ambiguity in charts arises from the failure to precisely define just what the data represent. Every dot on a scatterplot, every point on a time series line, every bar on a bar chart represents a number (actually, in the case of a scatterplot, two numbers). It is the job of the chart’s text to tell the reader just what each of those numbers represents.
Designing good charts, however, presents more challenges than tabular display as it draws on the talents of both the scientist and the artist. You have to know and understand your data, but you also need a good sense of how the reader will visualize the chart’s graphical elements.
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