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Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

This is an incredibly useful tool for those of you who might be teaching information design courses, or are looking for the best way to present data for your own work. The one problem with the periodic table metaphor is that the authors appear to have padded their list of examples so that they will fit into the periodic table format (how often are you likely to use a “Temple” diagram?). But I suppose that’s just a problem with information design metaphors in general.