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Long Live Parallel Coordinates

I once read from Edward Tufte that “graphical excellence is nearly always multivariate” from his book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (page 51):

And from my experience in the “data-analysis battles”, I believe this is true.  A notable example of that statement by Tufte is the graphic method of parallel coordinates.

The following are examples of this method:

credits: Wikipedia

 

credits: visflow.org

 

credits: knowledge.dataiku.com

 

credits: https://bl.ocks.org/

 

credits: researchgate.net

 

credits: unsetbit on GitHub

 

credits: https://ncva.itn.liu.se/

 

credits: vizwiz.com

 

credits: Jason Davies

 

What about seeing a parallel coordinate in real life?

credits: https://domesticstreamers.com/
credits: https://domesticstreamers.com/

 

If you would like to learn more parallel coordinates check these two amazing videos by DataVis Bob:

 

And this follow-up video:

 

Thank you DataVis Bob!

Finally, now the question is: can we implement them in Power BI: oh yes, oh yes!  I’ll be posting an article on the Power BI section of this blog, stay tuned.