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Why is there still such a gap between the grammar of charting (low level) and visual vocabulary (high level)? https://ft-interactive.github.io/visual-vocabular
by kthejoker2 4y ago
Why is there still such a gap between the grammar of charting (low level) and visual vocabulary (high level)?
https://ft-interactive.github.io/visual-vocabulary/ https://ft-interactive.github.io/visual-vocabulary/
Tools like Lux, Plotly, PowerBI, all seem to shy away from being way more prescriptive about thr kinds of visuals needed for a particular analysis.
Everyone wants to unleash their inner data artist, but if you're looking for time series anonalies, you want a ARIMA style line chart with an uncertainty funnel and a big red dot where actuals exceed targets.
Super frustrating having to map these over and over again in every new GoG library.
- ano88888 4y agoI checked out the link. The information is great but I have to wonder if the author of the website is color blind or not. The chosen combination of text color and background color is so difficult for the eyes. If they got something so obvious wrong, I can't help but question the quality of the visual vocabulary they are selling.
- kthejoker2 4y agoThis is some rando's interactive representation of the FT visual vocabulary, which itself is just a very simple poster, but the conceptualization of analytical purpose to visualization is straightforward and fits 99% of business intelligence dashboarding use cases. https://github.com/Financial-Times/chart-doctor/blob/main/visual-vocabulary/FT4schools_RGS.pdf https://github.com/Financial-Times/chart-doctor/blob/main/vi...