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Robert Kosara / November 8, 2006

Representational Mug

Representational Mug

This was bought in the store of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Filed Under: Blog 2006

Robert Kosara is Data Visualization Developer at Observable. Before that, he was Research Scientist at Tableau Software (2012–2022) and Associate Professor of Computer Science (2005–2012). His research focus is the communication of data using visualization. In addition to blogging, Robert also runs and tweets. Read More…

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  1. Petra says

    November 13, 2006 at 10:13 pm

    The mug is really nice, but why is it a representational mug?

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  2. Robert Kosara says

    November 13, 2006 at 11:56 pm

    I knew this would be a bit too hard, so I added a little hint.

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  3. Peter M. says

    November 30, 2006 at 6:03 am

    Petra: The hint is that it was bought at the “Guggenheim Museum”. You have had to be there to know what Robert means ;-)

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  4. mrs.rambo says

    December 8, 2006 at 10:02 pm

    it’s shaped like the building.

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