[IxDA Discuss] Alternate way to line chart

[Rutter, Mike]

Maybe you're thinking of William Cleveland's aspect ratio optimization?
His book is called "Visualizing Data". Here's a link that might be
helpful:

http://vis.berkeley.edu/papers/banking/

--Mike Rutter

Business Systems Analyst
Johns Manville


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Hello folks,

A while back, maybe at a conference, maybe a text book, I saw a way of
doing line charts that made them extremely easy to read.  Even with a
heavy amount of data. It was something like doing away with the peaks
and instead accenting a different part of the line. Unfortunately, for
the life of me, I can't remember what the "trick" was. I don't think it
was a Tufte thing, at least I've looked through my trusty books and
haven't found anything... 

 

Does anyone have any idea what I might have seen? 

 

Any help is much appreciated

 

-j

 

Jim Muntone

User Experience Manager | Product Design

Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company

http://www.sadrhino.net

 

 

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