The Wiki
General Ideas
Over-arching guidelines for good design.- Purpose of Design
- Consistency & Contrast
- Proximity & Separation
- Alignment
- Color
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Type -
Hierarchy -
Enclosure
Specific elements
Ideas for specific aspects present in data visualization.-
Annotations -
Aspect Ratio -
Axes -
Composition -
Grid lines -
Labels -
Lines -
Markers -
Ordering -
Annotations -
Small Multiples -
Ticks and Tick Marks -
Titles
Plots by function
Consideration for specific plots, grouped by what they show.-
Correlation -
Deviation -
Error -
Flow -
Magnitude and Ranking -
Models and Trends -
Part to Whole -
Spatial