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Choose distinct symbols that overlap without ambiguity and communicate relationships in data.

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Figure 2: Symbol diversity can be achieved by varying shape, fill or color.
Figure 3: Symbols should encode natural hierarchies in data to simplify legend lookup and help reveal patterns.

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  1. Martin Krzywinski is a staff scientist at Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre.,

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  2. Bang Wong is the creative director of the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.,

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