Book Review: Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization
Bridget Cogley & Vidya Setlur, Wiley (2022)
6 min readJan 11, 2023
It is January here in Tampa, Florida, and–in January in Tampa, anyway– it could be 🥶45 degrees🥶 or it could be 🔥85 degrees🔥on any given day. It has been both this year. 2022 was the warmest on record and this upcoming second weekend of 2023 will be remarkably cold for us.
Each morning, I open up a weather app which displays a 📈line chart showing the expected temperature over the course of the day and a 📊bar chart showing the…