After reading the diaries of Albert H. Munsell, discovering that the word “blue” was absent in all of Homer’s descriptions of the sea in The Iliad and The Odyssey, and surrendering to the superior visual system of the Mantis shrimp, I finally found my ground in the color literacy…
What you see is not always what you get. I must admit, Kieran Healy is a decent salesman. We begin the chapter “Look at data” at the top of his sales funnel with the exclamation that some data visualizations are better than others -- and before long we’re deep…
Though the tree and the graph are related, they are not equivalent. Let's get a sense of some history and background. Both the tree and the graph are non-linear data structures, the main difference as seen below in Fig. 1 is that a tree (on the left*) follows hierarchically ordered…