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Figure
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Multiple linked aggregated views. Top let view: barchart of players' fielding positions. he
“designated hitter” position has been selected. Below is a hex-binned scatterplot showing players' height
and weight, with the brightness indicating the fraction of designated hitters in each bin. On the right is
a paneled view of league against year, with each bar's size proportional to the count of the number of
players in the league for that year. Each bar is split into designated hitters and other positions. he
selected cases (designated hitters) are drawn in black throughout
exactly one job - to hit the baseball hard - and so the players are powerful players,
as the height-weight scatterplot shows.
Ontheright-handsideofFig.
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,amodifiedfacetedbarchartrepresentsthenum-
ber of players in the various different baseball leagues since
. he flurry of early
leagues settled down into the National League (NL) in
, which then shrank as
players were raided to form the American League in
. Both these leagues then
grew in size, with the Federal League a minor blip on the way. he degree of interest,
hererepresentingthepresenceofdesignatedhitters,hasbeenrepresentedbysplitting
the bars and setting the brightness of the sections corresponding to the two subsets.
