Alyssa Goodman edited Interactivity.md  over 9 years ago

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Figures are more useful when they can interacted with an explored. One can think of an interactive chart as giving the user the experience of playing with data, but in a very limited sandbox. Many top-tier news agencies (e. g. *The New York Times*) have done a lot of this work, and the technology is now getting easier to use without dedicated developers.   **Brushing** * Brushing  Brushing is the idea of being able to select, with a box or lasso like tool, a subset of the points in a one- or two- dimensional space.  **Linking** * Linking  Linking is when data points are connected. In the context of brushing, this allows a user to explore high dimensional spaces by selecting collections of points in one dimension and determining where they lie in another dimension.   **Staging** * Staging  Staging is a storytelling tool, allowing the author to reveal or highlight parts of a figure in sequence. The highlighting can take the form of Brushing and Linking as above.