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Michael Dubakov has this great introduction to visual encoding<\/a>, along with samples and easy to remember rules, so you don’t mess up the next time you’re trying to visualize data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Dubakov has this great introduction to visual encoding, along with samples and easy to remember rules, so you don’t mess up the next time you’re trying to visualize data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[172],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projectmanagement-en","tag-visualization","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tlzy-xj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1880,"url":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/telling-stories-with-charts\/","url_meta":{"origin":2065,"position":0},"title":"Telling stories with charts","author":"Daniel Pradilla","date":"20\/10\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In\u00a0The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Tufte highlights Minard's famous graphic where the story of the lives (and deaths) of over 400,000 soldiers is told during Napoleon's invasion of Russia.\u00a0Tufte declares it the first infographic that combines geographical elements with time and temperature variables. 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