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A Tour through the Visualization Zoo

Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky. Communications of the ACM, 2010
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Arc diagram of character co-occurrences in chapters of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.
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Abstract
A survey of powerful visualization techniques, from the obvious to the obscure.
BibTeX
@article{2010-visualization-zoo,
  title = {A Tour through the Visualization Zoo},
  author = {Heer, Jeffrey AND Bostock, Michael AND Ogievetsky, Vadim},
  journal = {Communications of the ACM},
  year = {2010},
  volume = {53},
  number = {6},
  pages = {59--67},
  publisher = {ACM},
  url = {https://uwdata.github.io/papers/visualization-zoo},
  doi = {10.1145/1743546.1743567}
}