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Pictures and the limits of 10K words
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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First ask what users will do with your graphic
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Present, compare, organize, correlate
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Visualization as a form of information architecture
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Visualization as functional art
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Code, copy, medium and process
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Domain and domain analysys
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