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I came across another one a while back I wish I had bookmarked, it was old style html just from a greybeard dataviz expert, and it was basically an exhaustive description of what to use in what situations, and it was chock full of advice that was both counterintuitive and obvious in hindsight... what was great about it is it focused on the data type first, and only recommended the viz styles at the end.

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Maybe you refer to [1]? These are the two options I like to show students who first get in touch with data visualization.

[1] https://www.data-to-viz.com/

Note: In the about page, they provide an extensive list of historical chart classification schemes :).

Unfortunately this one isn't easy to navigate on mobile.

Not sure about the website, but the guy was probably Edward Tufte from the description. He and Stephen Few were kind of the OGs of data visualization for the modern era.

https://www.edwardtufte.com/

Maybe this? https://eazybi.com/blog/data-visualization-and-chart-types

This one isn't it, but it's quite good and fits the description. Thanks.

“greybeard dataviz expert”

Is this a reference to age alone, or some particular attitude or propensity for outdated methods? Or is this description for wizards?

Would you mind posting a link as well? Would be much appreciated.

Hoping someone else recognizes it and will post it. Haven't been able to find it since.

Was it perhaps a demo of a js plotting library?

https://leeoniya.github.io/uPlot/demos/index.html

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