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I don't know if I am missing something obvious. What is the periodicity in these visualization methods? Like I am looking at the 2nd column: cartesian coordinates, line chart, area chart, scatterplot, spectogram. What periodic property is being repeated among them?

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There's no periodicity in visualization. The design space of visualization is much more complex the atomic number.

Also, this "periodic table" does not show the three main branches of visualization: Information Visualization, Scientific Visualization, and Geographic Visualization.

For example, this page gives an overview of time-oriented visualization with meta information like the original paper: https://browser.timeviz.net/

It also seems to be maintained by people working in that area.

My favorite part is that there is no such thing as a "spectogram" (I assume they mean a "spectrogram").

The whole thing is hilariously bad :) love it.

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