http://pages.graphics.cs.wisc.edu/VisSnacks/tags/building-blocks/ Recent content in Building-Blocks on Visualization Snacks Hugo en-us Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:40:41 -0500 http://pages.graphics.cs.wisc.edu/VisSnacks/tutorials/data-abstraction-cheat-sheet/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0500 http://pages.graphics.cs.wisc.edu/VisSnacks/tutorials/data-abstraction-cheat-sheet/ <p>The vocabulary for describing data abstractly defined concisely. These are the terms that come up most often in describing data for visualization.</p> http://pages.graphics.cs.wisc.edu/VisSnacks/tutorials/task-abstraction/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:40:41 -0500 http://pages.graphics.cs.wisc.edu/VisSnacks/tutorials/task-abstraction/ <p>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.</p> http://pages.graphics.cs.wisc.edu/VisSnacks/tutorials/encodings/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:00:00 -0500 http://pages.graphics.cs.wisc.edu/VisSnacks/tutorials/encodings/ <p>Visualizations are built by <strong>encoding</strong> 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.</p>