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Beautiful Visualization

2. Once Upon a Stacked Time Series

4. Color: The Cinderella of Data Visualization

5. Mapping Information: Redesigning the New York City Subway Map

6. Flight Patterns: A Deep Dive

7. Your Choices Reveal Who You Are: Mining and Visualizing Social Patterns

8. Visualizing the U.S. Senate Social Graph (1991–2009)

Building the Visualization

The Story That Emerged

What Makes It Beautiful?

And What Makes It Ugly?

Party Affiliation

9. The Big Picture: Search and Discovery

10. Finding Beautiful Insights in the Chaos of Social Network Visualizations

11. Beautiful History: Visualizing Wikipedia

12. Turning a Table into a Tree: Growing Parallel Sets into a Purposeful Project

13. The Design of "X by Y"

14. Revealing Matrices

15. This Was 1994: Data Exploration with the NYTimes Article Search API

16. A Day in the Life of the New York Times

17. Immersed in Unfolding Complex Systems

18. Postmortem Visualization: The Real Gold Standard

19. Animation for Visualization: Opportunities and Drawbacks

20. Visualization: Indexed.

A. Contributors

About the Authors

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And What Makes It Ugly?

Although I'm pretty happy with what my graphs ended up showing, there are a few things I would have changed, in hindsight. Most of the problems resulted from me making too many assumptions about the data, as I'll discuss in the next sections.

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