Visualization Analysis and Design

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1. graphvizJan 2024
   This is interesting and a little bit entertaining.

   There has been excellent work on taxonomies for data visualization. Tamara Munzner's book "Visualization Analysis and Design" is a good starting point.

   There has been excellent work on identifying "dimensions" or properties of data visualization. Lee Wilkinson's "Grammar of Graphics" is a landmark. You could search backward to find Bertin's Semiology of Graphics, or forward to find ongoing work like UW's Vega https://idl.cs.washington.edu/papers/vega-lite/

   Some of this work might somewhat capture the properties of a periodic table to organize a catalog and even support further discovery.

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2. abby_3017Dec 2021
   This book is really details and explain minute things in this domain. Tamara Munzner. "Visualization Analysis and Design" https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/vadbook/

   You should take a look into this.

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3. mbostockNov 2019
   There are decades of academic literature on visualization and perception: IEEE VIS (and InfoVis specifically), IEEE TVCG (Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics), ACM SIGCHI, and lots more. If you’re interested in learning about visualization I recommend starting with Tamara Munzner’s book, Visualization Analysis & Design:

   https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/vadbook/

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4. currywurstJun 2019
   To get to the next level and scale of bigger programs, you need to leverage the tons of work information visualization researchers have done.

   I always point people to Prof. Tamara Munzner's work[1][2] that allows you to skip over all the dead ends that people have tried over the decades and gives you a "thinking framework" on how to design visualizations.

   [1] VIZBI 2011 Keynote: Visualization Principles https://vimeo.com/26205288

   [2] Visualization Analysis and Design (Book) https://www.crcpress.com/Visualization-Analysis-and-Design/M...

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5. hooloovoo_zooFeb 2019
   Visualization Analysis and Design by Munzner is also good.
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6. ChuckMcMNov 2017
   They would really benefit by reading "Visualization Analysis & Design" by Munzer. If they had they would not have picked that set of colors :-). But poor color choices aside there is a lot to be said for 'modes'.
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