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The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works

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Re: The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works

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Post by torbTurret »

My favorite “effective” dataviz as of late (in this instance, effective as in conducive to education) is the mlu-explain articles from Amazon, visually explaining machine learning:

https://mlu-explain.github.io/

Fun, easy on the eyes, and informative.

Severs newsrooms also do a good job at graphics, though those are widely known. I like finding interesting little nuggets of dataviz.

Re: The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works

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Post by BOOSTERHIDROGEN »

torbTurret wrote: post #3

My favorite “effective” dataviz as of late (in this instance, effective as in conducive to education) is the mlu-explain articles from Amazon, visually explaining machine learning: https://mlu-explain.github.io/ Fun, easy on the eyes, and informative. Severs newsrooms also do a good job at graphics, though those are widely known. I like finding interesting little nuggets of dataviz.

Severs newsrooms?

Re: The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works

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Post by pcstl »

BOOSTERHIDROGEN wrote: post #5
torbTurret wrote: post #3

My favorite “effective” dataviz as of late (in this instance, effective as in conducive to education) is the mlu-explain articles from Amazon, visually explaining machine learning: https://mlu-explain.github.io/ Fun, easy on the eyes, and informative. Severs newsrooms also do a good job at graphics, though those are widely known. I like finding interesting little nuggets of dataviz.

Severs newsrooms?

I believe it was supposed to be "serves".

Re: The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works

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Post by splittingTimes »

IBM did research back in the 90s on perceptually-based colormaps and how to best represent various types of data within the color dimensions of luminescence, saturation and hue [1]. For example, they found that,

(1) Hue was not a good dimension for encoding magnitude information, i.e. rainbow color maps are bad.

(2) The mechanisms in human vision responsible for high spatial frequency information processing are luminance channels. If the data to be represented have high spatial frequency, use a color map which has a strong luminance variation across the data range.

(3) For interval and ratio data, both luminance- and saturation-varying color maps should produce the effect of having equal steps in data value correspond to equal perceptual steps, but the first will be most effective for high spatial frequency data variations and the second will be most effective for low spatial frequency variations.

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[1] the original link got removed from IBMs website. Back in the day it was under

https://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/lloydt/color/color.HTM

A pdf copy is here:

https://github.com/frankMilde/interesting-reads/blob/master/...

Re: The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works

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Post by wombatmobile »

With similar objectives, Edward Tufte achieved contemporary fame in data viz with his approach to presentation that can be stated simply: less is more.

Tufte taught and demonstrated that in charts, anything other than the barest of axis and label - any ornamentation beyond basic data - detracts from the presentation through distraction and ambiguity.

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/intelligent-designs

https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...

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