Reading response 1

What makes bad figures bad The author talks about three aspects that make bad figures bad: bad taste, bad data, and bad perception. Bad taste here could be also understood as over design,designers added too many elements that unnecessary for delivering the message, or even fuzz the message. As…

7 Numbers

Tuesdayhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/world/asia/china-coronavirus.htmlWednesday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubation_period Thursdayhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel_coronavirus_(2019-nCoV)Friday https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-01-30-20-intl-hnk/h_56d7dec110b086215239574b8087869eSaturday https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.23.20018549v2Sundayhttps://www.worldometers.info/…

Linear and radial parallel coordinates

Linear parallel coordinatesParallel coordinates are a common way of visualizing high-dimensional geometry and analyzing multivariate data. To show a set of points in an n-dimensional space, a backdrop is drawn consisting of n parallel lines, typically vertical and equally spaced. A point in n-dimensional space is represented as a polyline…