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5 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Data Visualization.

  • Alluvial diagram — A flow visualization whose blocks represent groups at successive stages and whose width-scaled streams show how members or quantities move among those groups over time or categories.
  • Horizon chart — A compact quantitative graphic that folds value bands onto a shared baseline and uses color intensity and sign to preserve magnitude patterns in little vertical space.
  • Log–log plot — Plot positive x and y values on logarithmic axes so multiplicative ratios become equal distances and a power law y=ax^k becomes a straight line with slope k and intercept log a.
  • Scatter plot — A graph representing paired observations as points positioned by two quantitative variables.
  • Waterfall Chart — A floating-bar visualization that reconciles an opening value to a closing value by encoding each ordered signed contribution as the step between consecutive running totals.