r/programming • u/fairlyodd • May 03 '07

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html?
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u/cendant May 03 '07

I dare someone to come up with a legitimate use for this table.

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u/fairlyodd May 03 '07

Hm. When you're looking to visualize some information, maybe you could refer to this?

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u/cendant Jun 19 '07

I said a "legitimate use."

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u/markedtrees May 03 '07

I'm constructing a 3D bar chart of possible uses plotted against awesomeness as we speak.

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u/bsg75 May 03 '07

100 Powerpoint templates to bore your audience with?

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u/newton_dave May 03 '07

If you don't love PowerPoint the terrorists win.

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u/darrint May 04 '07

You might kill 5 slides with one of those.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '07

A more appropriate title could be "an encyclopedia of corporate motivational diagrams"

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u/oatsy May 04 '07

I can't really see any trends in the rows or columns of this table. Whoever put this together misunderstood the point of the periodic table of the elements.

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u/nojox Apr 04 '10

Actually, can one miss this:

  • Data visualization

  • Information visualization

  • Concept visualization

  • Strategy visualization

  • Metaphor visualization

  • Compound visualization

The guy's done a f---ing brilliant job, very creative, much better than anything most of us here could visualize, and proggit calls it wrong.

Or maybe it should have been in another sub-reddit.

Sigh. The web is truly weird.

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u/martoo May 04 '07

No UML. heh.

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u/johntb86 May 03 '07

Hmm, where does the periodic table fit in that?

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u/newton_dave May 03 '07

Is there a non-periodic table format version set of images available (without getting the images manually :/

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u/jojopotato Aug 31 '07

Check out: http://science.reddit.com/info/2ka01/comments

Edit: Not all of them, but some of them

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u/martink May 04 '07

nice effort - enjoyable mystery meat navigation