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Describe the fundamental tools of visualization

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Describe the fundamental tools of visualization

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So whenever we're constructing a visualization, there are some tools that we have at our disposal to build up the image we're trying to build, to build up the visualization we're trying to create. These are fairly basic things. So typically, we have points, we have lines, areas, shapes, colors, and text. The way we combine these tools has a tremendous impact on the final results of our visualization, whether it will be effective or not, and whether it's transmitting the message that you're trying to transmit or not. In general, each of these tools can be used to encode a given variable or one or more variables to produce all the different types of plots that we are familiar with. If you want a scatter plot or even a line plot, you're just using points, perhaps a line to identify trends and so on. If you want a bar chart and you're essentially using an area or a length to represent your data, and this is one of the reasons why if you're using a bar plot, you shouldn't truncate the…

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