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How many ways are there to visualize data?

I've seen ths chart before but now I think I have to blog it since it is handy!

How many ways are there to visualize data?

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

Thanks to Sabrina at BeSpacific for this link:

Visual Literacy: An E-Learning Tutorial on Visualization for Communication, Engineering and Business

"This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations. After this tutorial, students should be able to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of visual representations, to improve their shortcomings, to use them to create and communicate knowledge, or to devise new ways of representing insights. The didactic approach consists of rooting visualization in its application contexts, i.e. giving students the necessary critical attitude, principles, tools and feedback to develop their own high-quality visualization formats for specific problems (problem-based learning). The students thus learn about the commonalities of good visualization in diverse areas, but also explore the specificities of visualization in their field of specialization (through real-life case studies). They will not only learn by doing, but in doing so contribute new training material for their peers to evaluate (peer learning)."

Sometimes prose text just doesn't cut it.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on December 04, 2009 (boomark / email).