> Perhaps no person is more responsible for giving data visualization a scientific foundation than... William Cleveland. His studies on #GraphicalPerception, the cognitive processes people use to understand a chart, are among the earliest attempts to study #visualization and develop a theory of how it should be best done.
> The cleaner, #MinimalistCharts in vogue today owe a great debt to #Cleveland.. to avoid pie charts and stacked bars. https://priceonomics.com/how-william-cleveland-turned-data-visualization/
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