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Author Archives: richardbrath
Maps Leaking Typography into Visualization
I enjoy typography and cartography. Cartographic labels show more than just the name of the place, such as using font weight to indicate population in a town, or spacing to indicate the extents of a mountain range (previous post). It … Continue reading
Posted in Data Visualization, Isotype, Line Chart, texture, Thematic Map
Tagged Album Statistique Graphique, Cartography, typography
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Text Visualizations and Proto-Text Visualizations
Michael Friendly recently sent me this Common Sense Revolution visualization by Scott Sørli plotting a timeseries from 1985-2007 of welfare income for a single person in Ontario; and the names of all the homeless who died on the streets of Toronto … Continue reading
Posted in Data Visualization, Design Space, Text Visualization
Tagged dataviz, datavis, 1970
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Showing risks, rights & freedoms in visualizations
The tragic events in Ukraine have left me wondering how quantitative visualizations miss showing complex issues such as human rights. One aspect of this conflict mentioned by various media outlets as well as elected officials is the flow of funds … Continue reading
Posted in Alphanumeric Chart, Annotation, Data Visualization, Treemap
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Two Y-Axes may be Appropriate!
Many visualization people are against dual-axis charts. There are research papers that recommend against, websites that recommend against, and some tools don’t support it. Hadley Wickham, the author of the popular R visualization package ggplot2, does not support dual axes … Continue reading
Posted in Data Visualization, Line Chart, Timeseries
Tagged datavis, dataviz, labels
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Visualizing with Texture: Lessons from Puzzles
Over the holidays, we put out a couple jigsaw puzzles, to solve collaboratively or otherwise take a break from holiday mayhem. These are big puzzles, we did a 2000 piece cartoon puzzle and a 1000 piece photograph puzzle. With such … Continue reading
Lyrics as Tiles: Billie Eilish’s Bad Guy coded with Color and Texture
Song lyrics depend heavily on rhythm, syllables and rhyme (in some songs such as pop songs). Some poetry visualizations add white space between words and lines, which can then be filled with various visualization techniques, such as forming links between … Continue reading
Modley’s Pictographs and Graphs
Rudolf Modley was a key figure in the popularization of Isotype in the United States. I’ve previously written about Isotype (e.g. hypothesizing what happened to it, and thematic axes). I recently received Modley and Lowenstein’s book Pictographs and Graphs (1952, … Continue reading
Posted in Data Visualization, Font Visualization, Isotype
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58 Ways to Visualize Alice in Wonderland (+10 more)
How many ways are there to visualize a book? Bar chart, scatterplot, word cloud… that’s too narrow thinking. And, yes, there are websites showing how academics visualize text. But what happens out in the wild? Artists? School assignments? Professional designers? … Continue reading
Dashed and patterned lines for visualization (aka 1D texture)
Bertin and Texture Jacques Bertin discusses texture in visualization, in his landmark book Semiology of Graphics (1967 original French edition, 1983 English translation). Much of modern visualization theory and implementation hinges on Bertin’s framework, including the notion of visual attributes, … Continue reading
Posted in Data Visualization, texture
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Visualizing with Text: Endorsements and more examples
Thanks everyone who’s bought a copy of Visualizing with Text. I hope you’re enjoying it. I’m really appreciate some of the examples I’m seeing in the wild. Here’s some fantastic examples from Georgios Karamanis. I like the shifted + bold … Continue reading