167 | Visualization and Statistics with Andrew Gelman and Jessica Hullman
Data Stories
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Having a Theory of Visualization for Exploratory Analysis
The way you describe style to me reminds me how important it is to have theory and also a theory of graphics in this specific instance. We wrote a paper for the Harvard Data Science Review like about a year or so ago, where we sort of talked about this as applies to exploratory visual analysis. But I think there you can easily run into places where you just like you have no theory to tell you how to design something in sort of a better way versus a worse way. And if you never state what you're going for, what your objective is, how do you know when you were wrong?
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