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My key takeaways from this reading are that there are general guidelines and protocols, but no hard or fast rules. All of these best practices exist on a spectrum. For example, chart-junk can be a distraction and pull away from the importance or insights of the data. Sometimes this can…

Parallel-Coordinate Plots & Star Plots

Parallel-Coordinate Plots What are they? Parallel coordinate plots visualize multiple factors and, more importantly, show their relationships to one another. Each variable is given its own vertical axis, and the values for each variable is typically represented as an integer that falls along the vertical axis for said variables. Commonly…