03 — Ways of Seeing (2)

Kieran Healy

January 23, 2024

Pre-Attentive Processing

Colin Ware

Colin Ware

Colin Ware

Gestalt Inferences and Design

George Cave

George Cave

George Cave

Encodings or mappings for data

What’s a graph, anyway?

Visual tasks in decoding graphs

William Cleveland

William Cleveland

William Cleveland

William Cleveland

William Cleveland

William Cleveland and Michael Bostock

A rough hierarchy of mappings for data

Tamara Munzner

Tamara Munzner

Honesty & judgment

CLARITY

CLARITY

HONESTY

CLARITY

HONESTY

TRUTH

CONTEXT

CONTEXT

CONVENTION

CONTEXT

CONVENTION

MEANING

Graphing in practice

Workhorses

Histogram

Workhorses

Scatterplot

Workhorses

Trend

Workhorses

Point-and-range

Workhorses

Faceting

Show Ponies

Congressional comparison

Show Ponies

Several plots at once

Show Ponies

Beeswarm plot

Show Ponies

Lexis Surface

Show Ponies

Faceted maps

Unicorns …

The inevitable Minard

Unicorns …

Swedish mortality

… or monsters

Network chords