Last Words | Charts and Graphs
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Last Words | Charts and Graphs
Consider the saying often attributed to Stalin that one death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is statistics.
but they also show us that how people die is not predetermined and can be made better or worse by the choices they make and the quality of care they receive.
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.