You are walking through the corridors of a software development firm specializing in data and text visualization.
You happen to hear these words from a D3 software engineer:
Best practices in data visualization may make sense in a static world of print and pdfs. But those Tufte-touted rules don't apply today. We live in a new world of scalable vector graphics and interactive visualizations. Heck, I can make an ugly plot into a beautiful plot with a few mouse clicks and some panning and zooming.
What do you think about the claims of this software engineer?
You are walking through the corridors of a software development firm specializing in data and text...