Data Abstraction: A Cheat Sheet
The vocabulary for describing data abstractly defined concisely. These are the terms that come up most often in describing data for visualization.
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Task Abstraction: A Crash Course
Task abstraction is how we discuss what the visualization is trying to help the viewer do. Typically, this is done by trying to organize the range of tasks into categories or a taxonomy.
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Encodings: Building Blocks for Visualizations
Visualizations are built by encoding data into visual properties: position, size, color, shape, and so on. Thinking in terms of these building blocks - rather than in terms of chart types - lets you decompose designs, compare choices, and invent new things. And one building block towers over the others: position. Spend it wisely.
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