{"id":1402,"date":"2006-12-15T14:53:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T19:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2007-11-18T11:33:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T16:33:18","slug":"sparklines-bella-consults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"Sparklines: Bella consults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/sparkbis.jpg\" id=\"image1401\" alt=\"sparkbis.jpg\" border=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bella-consults.com\/\">Bella consults<\/a> is a blog which purports to be &#8220;musings of the office dog at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bissantz.de\/en\/\">Bissantz<\/a>&#8221; which I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bissantz.de\/sparklines\/index.asp\">blogged earlier<\/a> on the subject. So far (as of Friday, Dec. 15th) it is a great summary of what to do and not do with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1284\">sparklines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bella is a Labrador that appears at different ages in a composite picture that Edward Tufte reproduces in <cite>Beautiful Evidence<\/cite> (page 43.) Tufte reproduces the image to show how one can create visualizations that combine multiple images where the &#8220;<em>measurement labels are place directly in the photograph where they belong&#8221;<\/em> instead of forcing the reader to decode labels. Tufte says everyone should use &#8220;Bella reporting standards&#8221;. Bella&#8217;s blog is presumably a meditation on her standards.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Roland Zimmermann for pointing this out to me and also pointing me to his short essays <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bissantz.de\/forum\/en\/\">Bissantz ponders<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bella consults is a blog which purports to be &#8220;musings of the office dog at Bissantz&#8221; which I blogged earlier on the subject. So far (as of Friday, Dec. 15th) it is a great summary of what to do and not do with sparklines. Bella is a Labrador that appears at different ages in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1402\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sparklines: Bella consults<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging-culture","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}