Category Archives: Alphanumeric Chart

Word Stems Visualized

Posted on September 30, 2018 by

In this blog there have been many posts of words visualized where differences are accentuated and encoded using bold, italics, underlines, etc. But what if you want to visualize the similarities? Stemming is a basic task in a lot of … Continue reading →

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Stem & Leaf Bigrams

Posted on November 30, 2017 by

Stem & leaf plots are quirky alphanumeric data visualizations. In typical usage they show distributions of numeric values. Here’s a simple dataset of heights of my family on the left, transformed into a stem and leaf plot on the right: … Continue reading →

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Lost Works of Jacques Bertin on Typography

Posted on October 29, 2017 by

Strangely, out of 450 pages+ in Bertin’s Sémiologie Graphique translated into English only 4 pages about typography were not translated. Continue reading →

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Top NY Picks: Me vs. Reviews

Posted on June 30, 2017 by

I have a few upcoming speaking appearances, including the International Cartography Conference (DC July 6); Information Visualization 2017 (London July 13) and Strata Data Conference (NYC Sept 26-28). Since NYC is a city I often visit, I thought I’d make … Continue reading →

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Microtext Line Charts

Posted on October 15, 2016 by

Sometimes a line chart needs to display a lot of lines. Instead of splitting into a grid of charts, consider replacing the lines with text. Continue reading →

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Noticing a Difference vs. Decoding

Posted on May 31, 2016 by

I’ve had a number of papers rejected where I’ve varied multiple (font) attributes within a single visualization – jump ahead to fig. 6 for an example. There are members in the visualization community and the typography community who have reservations about … Continue reading →

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Alphanumeric Financial Charts

Posted on April 30, 2016 by

Financial charting has long used alphanumerics as point indicators in charts. One of the oldest I can find is Hoyle’s Figure Chart (from The Game in Wall Street and How to Play it Successfully: 1898) which essentially plots individual security prices in a matrix … Continue reading →

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