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(via 39 studies about human perception in 30 minutes — Medium)

There is a plethora of options when it comes to data visualisation, and these 15 common types are only the tip of the iceberg.

#chart types #data visualization #graph types #infographics #tools

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Diagrams of optical phenomena

From The Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs

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Astronomische Zeichnungen (c. 1508).

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Representation of the apparent motion of the sun and planets from the earth.

Taken from the Astronomy article in the first edition of Encyclopædia Britannica (1777).

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Dunhuang star map. ca. 700 CE (Tang Dynasty)

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Edward Tufte’s sculptures of Feynman’s diagrams.

Barbury Castle Crop Circle by Michæl Paukner on Flickr.

#Michael Paukner #design #poster #crop circle #mystery #Pi #UFO

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Michael Paukner’s The Bigger Picture Album on Flickr is a fascinating tour of some of history’s biggest ideas as visualized through Paukner’s informative and elegant poster designs. The ideas represented span the range from conventional thought to controversial theories both old and new. All of the images are accompanied by a brief description and history of the theories represented.

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Wright’s Celestial Map of the Universe, 1742

Thomas Wright was an 18th-Century English astronomer who was credited with being the first to describe the shape of our own Milky Way galaxy.

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Visualizing Prime Numbers

Jason Davies has created a way to visualize prime numbers as periodic curves (curves that repeat every n points). Wherever only two curves intersect (for 1 and the number), that’s a prime.

Play with the interactive, zoomable version here. Awesome stuff!