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Periodic Patterns: Simple 2D Data Visualization

Data visualization is about displaying patterns. It uses the human brain, our own amazing neural network, to discover patterns and to understand relationships within the data. We can use computer graphics as a tool that makes patterns stand out more clearly. Looking at a long list of numbers will probably not reveal much about the data, but patterns in an image are more easily recognizable. In previous sections, we used charting and reporting to represent data spatially. To make a chart, we needed to know ahead of time how the data points were related. However, in some cases you may not know ...