Types of Charts
These lecture note slides walk through various charting options at your disposal. The slide collection also includes some working examples to show how one dataset can be visualized with many different charts. Take note of which charts are associated with each data type. Some are quite creative.
Two tradeoffs
Two tradeoffs
- Informativeness vs. readability
- Too little information can conceal data
- But too much information can be overwhelming
- Possible solution: hierarchical organization?
- Data-centric vs. viewer-centric
- Viewers are accustomed to certain types of visualization
- But novel visualizations can be truer to data
Information vs. readability
- Pirahã people of Brazil
- Isolated indigenous group
- No words for numbers
- Previous research suggested that they were unable to do simple matching games
- Five matching games, 14 participants, quantities 4-10 (split among participants)
Data-centric vs. viewer-centric
- Web study of word learning
- n=700
- lots of noise
- varied number of objects
with different properties
- asked for bets
- had a model that predicted performance
