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DOI: 10.1201/9781003214335-12

Advanced Graphics

Complex Visualizations

and More

A famous professor once said, “Calculus is the language of God” (Steven Strogatz—​

Infinite Possibilities). While I totally agree with that statement, discussing this is

perhaps the topic for another day—​perhaps you would like to read his book to under­

stand why. But I think if calculus is the language of God, graphs are God’s artwork.

A graph can say so many things in a variety of ways! It gives us a new perspective

that reveals impactful information that otherwise cannot be discovered easily from

rows of numbers.

Take for instance this graph.

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Give vs Take Ratio

AGE

FIGURE 11.1  Magnanimity vs age.

It shows us how we depend on others in our early childhood and late maturity, but

pretty much like to be in control for the period between youth and middle age.

Here are some more graphs representing life trends we are all too familiar with.

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