The visual presentation of data to aid the discovery of important relationships among content and to inform meaningful narratives that move people through information
- Wurman’s “hat racks,” or LATCH—organizes information by location, alphabet, time, category, or hierarchy.
- It is often beneficial to specify a coordinate system that will serve as an anchor for the visualization. Yau outlines coordinate system options as (1) Cartesian (x and y axes), (2) polar (radius and angles), and (3) geographic (latitude and longitude location).
- Scales are used to represent the data accurately and consistently, including linear, categorical, percent, logarithmic, ordinal, and time.
- The emerging organizational structures, coordinate ...