A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)
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A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)
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Re: A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)
#2Its a bit old now, but full of fascinating material.
Re: A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)
#3I like the idea, but I'm confused. Why go to all the effort to think about visualization methods, then shoehorn them into the shape of the chemical element periodic table, without even making use of the periodic structure of the table? Funny enough, "periodic table" isn't its own item on this chart.
I think it would be more useful and interesting to group by type in some way, perhaps with a bit of tree structure. Which reminds me of a loosely related idea: I'd like to see a tree diagram of different tree data structures, where the tree structure reflects the relationships of historical development and/or data structure behavior...
Re: A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)
#4Also a good meta example of picking a poor visualization method for the given data?
This makes me curious --
Has there been any good application of "periodic table" as a visualization method for anything other than chemical elements?
If we are thinking of a grid where "rows" and "columns" imply some common properties .. then I am sure there are a few examples of matrix / quadrant/ grid formats that help convey that.
But specifically "periodic table" is overused IMO.
If applied correctly, I would expect every Nth element along X dimension resembles each other so it makes sense to wrap it and show it as a next row so that we get common properties along Y dimension as well.
Re: A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)
#5I'd like to see the practice of stuffing arbitrary topics into the periodic table become an object of scorn and eyerolls. Doing so degrades both the topic and the science of chemistry.
Re: A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)
#6Very nice and useful!
I had long wanted a catalog of the various visual/graphical/diagramming techniques in one place as a reference and this seems to be a good one.
Any other sites/books etc. that people can recommend on this topic?
Re: A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)
#7Also a good meta example of picking a poor visualization method for the given data? This makes me curious -- Has there been any good application of "periodic table" as a visualization method for anything other than chemical elements? If we are thinking of a grid where "rows" and "columns" imply some common properties .. then I am sure there are a few examples of matrix / quadrant/ grid formats that help convey that.…
It's possible that the correct visualization, the nutritional food pyramid, became too unwieldy with this many visualization methods.
Re: A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)
#8This is something i'd prefer to save forever.
Who knows if i need it in 5-25 years and the website is not there anymore.
Re: A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)
#9This is the polonium of visualization
Re: A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)
#10This is a very forced metaphor, in that many elements don’t fit well into their groups, and could reasonably sit elsewhere.
The x, y axes means something in periodic tables, but nothing here.
Typography hence readability is extremely poor. And so on.
Not sure about this at all.