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Envisioning Information
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I like to think of data visualization as a story. The main character is the user, and we can go two ways. A story of charts and graphs might read a lot like a textbook; however, a story with context, relationships, interactions, patterns, and explanations reads like a novel.
Tufte created an enduring theory of information design in The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983)