Have you ever thought: what's the actual difference between two charting tools? We explore a nearby-reading (not quite distant/not quite close) that uses a metrics-driven approach to answer that question.

In @nicolaskruchten, my, and Mike McGuffin's upcoming paper #ieeevis paper we develop an eval framework answering this question (and similar ones) for any charting notation (dsl/grammar/whatever).

Blog post: https://medium.com/multiple-views-visualization-research-explained/metrics-for-reasoning-about-the-usability-of-visualization-notations-6c03b9292780
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16353