#Summary
The use cases for less common graphs is a blog article authored authored by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. The article portrays examples of uncommon vis idioms. The motivation for the post actually arose from the author writing about idioms she most often used in practice. She noticed most of these were common idioms, like scatterplots or horizontal bar graphs. Because of this the author proposes situations when the use of uncommon idioms is appropriate via four examples (three effective use cases and an ineffective one).
The first example is an infographic that plots California moisture data. The idiom resembles a scatterplot but focuses on outliers by fading the middle portions of the plot and focuses on trends by plotting trend lines in the faded portion of the plot. It winds up effectively summarizing what would appear like an overwhelming amount of information under different circumstances.
The second exam