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It's been almost by chance that I stumbled upon the old Parallel Coordinates InfoVis'97 paper "Multidimensional Detective" after my last post. And it's crazy how some information seems to reach you when you start following a new line of thought.

This post and my last one are very much in line with the idea that we do need to invest a lot more on the practice of visualization and not only on design.

Parallel Coordinates have been invented by Alfred Inselberg who is also the author of this paper. What is really impressive in retrospective, after more than ten years, is the need to communicate to people not only what Parallel Coordinates is, but more, and foremost probably, how they can be used.

In this paper Inselberg provides some great guidelines to use when performing visual data analysis. Here I provide some personal comments about each guideline.

The New Scientist has just published an article on an amazing recent study conducted by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre on the remoteness of places in the world. The remoteness is calculated taking into account how long it takes to travel by land or water to the nearest place with a least a population of 50.000 inhabitants. Here is the result.