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The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures.

Ben Shneiderman
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A cosmic milestone in the history of music

Something weird and nerdy today: a nice ‘The Goody I Found’ (TGIF) that combines my enthusiasm for music and visualisation.

Last week I found this LinkedIn post by RobertoMensa: the data and an Excel visualisation of

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There is a BETA of graphomate chartrix

We’ve been working hard for over 18 months and this week we finished our first BETA of the graphomate chartrix for SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).

You can get a first impression of our chartrix by

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SAP Business unleashed?

Yesterday, SAP unveiled the ‘new’ SAP Business Data Cloud with much fanfare.
With charismatic hand gestures, Christian Klein and others presented “SAP’s biggest launch in a DECADE” – according to Timo Eliott.
https://lnkd.in/eprGini4
 
Or, as Klein is quoted

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Nothing is certain, except death and taxes

Germany goes to the polls in 3 weeks and today’s Goody I Found (TGIF) is all about the parties’ election promises on income taxation.

Together with the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), the Süddeutsche Zeitung

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Big Ben is nothing compared to this …

This object is probably the most monumental “Goody I Found” (TGIF) yet!

When I first saw a picture of this “building” at the end of last year, I was completely flabbergasted: an architecture design like

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Merry Christmas!

The last goodie I found this year! An older favourite of mine and not really a visualisation …
On the other hand, comics are also visualisations in a broader sense, and as a big fan of

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