Her graphics made it impossible to deny the realities represented by the data: army administration needed dramatic reform. Nightingale's diagrams received broad coverage in the press.

Flow charts may include different levels of detail as needed, from a high-level overview of an entire system to a detailed diagram of one component process within a larger system.

A new book by designer Manuel Lima, however, shows that data viz's roots go much deeper--some 900 years, at the very least. And calling them "roots" is very much appropriate.

The same data chart as above, but run through a simulation filter to demonstrate what it would look like for someone with a common type of colour blindness. Trajkova et al., Informatics (2020 ...

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