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Composable data visualizations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2021

TOMAS PETRICEK*
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School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NZ, UK (e-mail: t.petricek@kent.ac.uk)
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Let’s say we want to create the two charts in Figure 1. The chart on the left is a bar chart that shows two different values for each bar. The chart on the right consists of two line charts that share the x axis with parts of the timeline highlighted using two different colors.

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