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Category Archives: Alphanumeric Chart
Visualizing Causes of Death in Georgian London
LondonLives.org is a collection of 240,000 historic manuscripts from eighteenth century London. These have been collected, organized and analyzed, such as Sharon Howard’s summary of 2894 coroner inquests from London 1760-1799 with each case including subjects, verdicts and causes of … Continue reading
Shapes or Alphabetic Point Marks?
In some visualizations, such as scatterplots, a visualization designer might use different shapes to encode categoric data. Abstract shapes such as circles and squares can be used, but in practice, many visualization systems have a limited number of shapes (e.g. … Continue reading
SparkWords
SparkWords are words in running text where words embed additional data using color, bold, italic, etc. Visualization is embedded directly into the narrative words. Continue reading
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Word Stems Visualized
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
Posted in Alphanumeric Chart, Data Visualization, Text Visualization
Tagged stem and leaf, vector fonts
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Stem & Leaf Bigrams
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
Lost Works of Jacques Bertin on Typography
Strangely, out of 450 pages+ in Bertin’s Sémiologie Graphique translated into English only 4 pages about typography were not translated. Continue reading
Posted in Alphanumeric Chart, Data Visualization, Font Visualization, Text Visualization
Tagged data visualization, datavis
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Top NY Picks: Me vs. Reviews
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
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
Noticing a Difference vs. Decoding
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
Alphanumeric Financial Charts
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
