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On-Call: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
October 30, 2011 - 17:45 — allieIn the the 2010 Economist article Show Me, Martin Wattenberg, a graphic designer at SmartMoney, came up with a "Map of the Market", a way of visualizing closing share prices of 500 companies in the stock market by sector. Today, data visualization has been extended to fields of computer science, statistics, artistic design, and storytelling. In contrast to numerical data, words are often represented a "word clouds".
