Subtleties of Color Response

Good use of different color palettes can enhance the storytelling, clarity, and attention aspects of different datasets. I think the blog series introduced the ideas of applying color scales to data nicely. It discussed about three types of datasets: sequential, divergent, and qualitative. These theories are interesting to me. I…

Judy Dai

The introductory chapter shows how Kierann Healy thinks about elements that make a figure bad. Healy describes that several diagrams and charts have unnecessary “junks” that makes the whole thing complicated. I do agree that the “life expectancy: 2007” diagram shown in section 1.2 is definitely a bad designed…

7 Numbers

TuesdayThe Guacamole Recipe I used today. Need 3 avocados.Wednesday2019 US Beef Retail Price, cents per lb. on a retail weight basis.ThursdayOn good days, Mr. Evangelista makes roughly $100 after working five to six hours, but other days he can make as little as $42.FridayEric K. Singhi, a…

Dendrogram

A dendrogram is a network structure. It is constituted of a root node that gives birth to several nodes connected by edges or branches. The last nodes of the hierarchy are called leaves. Two type of dendrogram exist, resulting from 2 types of dataset: 1- A hierarchic dataset provides the…