The second cohort of data visualization interns are off and running here at the Digital Project Studio. They will be sharing the projects they are working on very soon. But, as they are getting up to speed, I want to take a minute to reflect on learning about data visualization and technology in general. Recently, in our Tech and Texts seminar series, we read some selections of Wilkinson’s The Grammar of Graphics (an interesting book which formed the basis for the R plotting library ggplot). He begins with an insightful reflection on the difference between graphics and charts:
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