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| − | <span style="color:#FF0000"> * Visual Explanations, '''pages 144 - 145''' </span>
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| − | <span style="color:#FF0000"> * Envisioning Information, '''chapter 3''' </span>
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| − | <span style="color:#FF0000"> * The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, '''chapter 2 and 9''' </span>
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| − | - A ligt transparent color for flow-lines is allowing the underlying type to show through.
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| − | - Good design has two key elements:
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| − | # simplicity of design
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| − | # complexity of data
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| − | - Attractive displays of statistical information:
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| − | # Have a properly chosen format and design
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| − | # use words, numbers, and drawing together
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| − | # reflect a balance, proportion, a sense of relevant scale
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| − | # display an accessible complexity of detail
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| − | # often have a narrative quality, a story to tell about the data
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| − | # are drawn in a professional manner, with the technical details of production done with care
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| − | # avoid content-free decoration, including chartjunk
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| − | - The conventional sentence is a poor way to show more than two numbers because it prevents comparisons within the data.
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| − | - Pie chart should newer be used given their low data-density and failure to order numbers along visual dimension.
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| − | - Words and pictures belong together. Viewers need the help that words provide.
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| − | - There are nearly always better sequence than alphabetical.
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| − | - Tables and graphics should be run into text whenever possible, avoiding the clumsy and diverting segregation of "See Fig. 2".
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| − | - Colors if used, are chosen so that the color-deficient and color-blind (5 - 10 percent of viewers) can make sense of the graphics (blue - easily distinguishable)
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| − | - Lines in data graphics should be thin.
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| − | - The greater meaning is given to a greater line weight.
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| − | - Our eye is naturally practiced in detecting deviations form the horizon, and graphics design should take advantage of this fact. Horizontally stretched time-series are more accessible to the eye.
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| − | - The analogy to the horizon also suggests that a shaded, high contrast display might occasionally be better than the floating snake. The shading should be calm, without moire effect.
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| − | - If the nature of data suggests the shape of the graphics, follow that suggestion. Otherwise move toward horizontal graphics about 50 percent wider than tall (Golden Rectangle).
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| − | - Design is choice.
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| − | <span style="color:#FF0000"> * Beautiful Evidence, '''pages 116 - 117'''</span>
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