Mackinlay, Card

Data Types
nominal, ordered, quantitative

Marks
point, line, area, surface, volume
geometric primitives

Retinal Properties
size, brightness, color, texture, orientation, shape, etc
parameters that control the appearance of geometric primitives
separable channels of information flowing from retina to brain

Data Variables
1D, 2D, 3D, 4D, 5D, etc


Bertin; Wilkinson; Stolte et al
closest thing to central dogma we've got

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