2. Explore-Explain Is your goal to explore, document, or explain your data or ideas, or a combination of these?
3. Feature recognition | Is feature and/or pattern recognition, a goal?
4. Predictions & Uncertainty | Are you making a comparison between data and/or predictions? Is representing uncertainty a concern?
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5. Dimensions [2] | What
7. Abstraction & Accuracy
Do you need to show all the data, or is
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8. Context & Scale |
Can you, and do you want to, put the data into a standard frame of reference?
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Is a single scale OK, or do you need more than one at once?
9. Metadata | Do you need to display or link to non-quantitative metadata? (Consider figure captions, labels and other in-text explanations
10. Display modes | What display modes might be used in experiencing your display?
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Technical Considerations
Sources Are your data all in one file/source, or many | Formats Are/