tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729093380675162051.post6467952925796215760..comments2024-03-28T13:56:47.604+11:00Comments on moyhu: More visible time series plotsNick Stokeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06377413236983002873noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729093380675162051.post-35776653464777251112011-07-19T08:10:51.126+10:002011-07-19T08:10:51.126+10:00Anon, I checked out Colorbrewer. They don't se...Anon, I checked out Colorbrewer. They don't seem to do palettes of more than ten colors, and they focus on gradations of a single hue.<br /><br />But I'm thinking more now of the dynamic displays - but it's still good to have color differentiation.<br /><br />I haven't read Tufte's book, though when you mentioned him, I looked up his Wiki bio. Interesting guy.Nick Stokeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377413236983002873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729093380675162051.post-89413350505503352302011-07-19T04:51:28.479+10:002011-07-19T04:51:28.479+10:00I think you are going to continue to run into trou...I think you are going to continue to run into trouble with differentiating colors as long as you are relying on simply incrementing through a spectrum. Try out some of the qualitative colormaps from http://colorbrewer2.org/<br /><br />It is also more than just the colors that help differentiate data. Have you started looking at Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Data yet? Highly, highly recommended.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com