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Text Visualization : Come and get inspired !!

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 Doing data viz on some types of tasks can be difficult, especially when ordinary line, bar or pie charts will not do enough job explaining the ideas we want to convey. Text in particular, is a bit delicate to represent with the traditional techniques. Depending on the core idea we would like to represent, sometimes it turns out be be a much harder task. The Theodore Psalter, AD 1066: Add MS 19352, f. 100r I remember few situations when I attended a presentation, only to leave later with more confusion regarding the charts used. I have talked many times on my Twitter about the importance of data viz, and how we really need to make sure that graphs are as simple and as clear as possible, containing easy to understand information, without confusion to your audience . Yes I really do understand that this requires a certain patience and expertise, however why not get inspired and learn from people having done the task and try to understand the story behind the data, the goal and the ob...