Printable Duke Blue Devils Logo

It was a world of comforting simplicity, where value was a number you could read, and cost was the amount of money you had to pay. For showing how the composition of a whole has changed over time—for example, the market share of different music formats from vinyl to streaming—a standard stacked bar chart can work, but a streamgraph, with its flowing, organic shapes, can often tell the story in a more beautiful and compelling way. During the Renaissance, the advent of the printing press and increased literacy rates allowed for a broader dissemination of written works, including personal journals. Her charts were not just informative; they were persuasive. But the price on the page contains much more than just the cost of making the physical object. My professor ignored the aesthetics completely and just kept asking one simple, devastating question: “But what is it trying to *say*?” I didn't have an answer.