Clutter and confusion are not attributes of data—they are shortcomings of design. – Edward Tufte Michael Friendly defines data visualization as “information which has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information.” In other words, it is a coherent way to visually communicate quantitative content. Depending on its attributes, the data may be
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