Tag Archives: datavis

Text Visualizations and Proto-Text Visualizations

Posted on April 30, 2022 by richardbrath

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 →

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Two Y-Axes may be Appropriate!

Posted on February 3, 2022 by richardbrath

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 →

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58 Ways to Visualize Alice in Wonderland (+10 more)

Posted on October 31, 2021 by richardbrath

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 →

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Visualizing with Text – high-res figures now on-line

Posted on October 26, 2020 by richardbrath

Visualizing with Text releases any day now: I hope to have my copy before the end of VisWeek. I’ve finally posted all the figures that I authored on-line with a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. There’s 158 high-resolution images and diagrams from … Continue reading →

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Visualizing with Text – Interactive Demos

Posted on September 23, 2020 by richardbrath

Visualizing with Text now has interactive demos made with observable notebooks. One demo for word skimming is discussed including some code edits to make colorful text. Continue reading →

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“…and what is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?”

Posted on August 16, 2020 by richardbrath

My book Visualizing with Text is nearing publication (early November!). One goal of the book is to appeal to both researchers (with structured text with logical arguments), and designers (with many examples and pictures). I really like books with lots … Continue reading →

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Lost Works of Jacques Bertin on Typography

Posted on October 29, 2017 by richardbrath

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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