Yau’s central premise is that every data point represents a real-world event: a person’s heartbeat, a purchase, or a change in the environment. To create visualization that "means something," a designer must look past the spreadsheet and visualize the life behind the statistics.
Getting to know the nuances, flaws, and origins of your dataset. Data Points: Visualization That Means Something
Moving beyond bar charts to find the shapes, trends, and outliers that reveal the true narrative. Yau’s central premise is that every data point