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5. Table Calculations

Seema Acharya and Subhashini Chellappan2

(1)Pune, Maharashtra, India

(2)Bangalore, Karnataka, India

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures.

—Ben Shneiderman, computer scientist, distinguished university professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, and founding director (1983-2000) of the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab

Chapter 4 introduced us to two new fields, namely, measure names and measure values. We learnt to blend multiple measures on a single axis and to use a dual axis to enhance our presentation of data. We were ...

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