U5.06

Density ceilings of charts

Cards in this group · 5

  1. U5.06.1A chart's real capacity for marks is set by when they start overlapping, not by how much data exists
  2. U5.06.2Past the density ceiling, the only real options are aggregating, sampling, or splitting into smaller panels
  3. U5.06.3The same dataset that's readable on a wide monitor turns into a smear on a phone screen
  4. U5.06.4A scatter plot of thousands of fused points still shows the shape of the distribution, not any one point
  5. U5.06.5Shrinking the marks to relieve overcrowding just hides the problem instead of actually solving it