stop making pie charts!
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- 1. Stop Making Pie Charts! An opinionated guide to the craft of data visualisation Robin Gower Open Data Manchester 30.06.15 infonomics.ltd.uk @robsteranium
- 2. Motivation Components Perception Guidance
- 3. Motivation
- 4. CC BY 2.0 Flickr Procilas Moscas Data raw symbols
- 5. CC BY 2.0 Flickr Procilas Moscas Information meaning from context
- 6. Copyright | Denise Schmandt-Besserat (1977) Visualisation representation of the abstract
- 7. CC BY SA 4.0 Robin Gower 2015 Encoding data aesthetics
- 8. How similar are these sets? Anscombe (1973) Graphs in Statistical Analysis
- 9. How similar are these sets? Anscombe (1973) Graphs in Statistical Analysis
- 10. How similar are these sets? Anscombe (1973) Graphs in Statistical Analysis
- 11. Components
- 12. Variables Trafford MBC 2015
- 13. Transformations Trafford MBC 2015 with Infonomics
- 14. CC BY-SA 2.0 Flickr Guian Bolisay Scales mapping to a common unit
- 15. Yahoo Finance via the Generalist Scales mapping to a common unit
- 16. Coordinates mapping to the display CC BY 2.0 Flickr Carsten Frenzl 2013
- 17. Coordinates mapping to the display DWP 2012 JSA Claimants in the North West,
- 18. Coordinates mapping to the display Distribution of Cultural Venues Infonomics
- 19. Elements aesthetic attributes this page is intentionally left blank
- 20. Guides to provide context Out-of-Copyright Ordnance Survey 1887
- 21. Perception
- 22. Pre-attentive Processing 3.14159265358979 3238462643383279 5028841971693993 7510582097494459 2307816406286208 9986280348253421
- 23. Pre-attentive Processing 3.14159265358979 3238462643383279 5028841971693993 7510582097494459 2307816406286208 9986280348253421
- 24. Decoding accuracy Cleveland, McGill (1986) An experiment in
- 25. Decoding accuracy Cleveland, McGill (1986) An experiment in
- 26. Ranking of Perceptual Tasks Mackinley 1986 Automating the Design of
- 27. CC BY 1.0 WikiMedia Commons Shutz 2007
- 28. CC BY 1.0 WikiMedia Commons Shutz 2007
- 29. Visualization: Using Computer Graphics to
- 30. Stephen Few http://www.perceptualedge.com
- 31. Aesthetics Position Copyright Christian Rudder, Dataclysm
- 32. Aesthetics Position Polish Central Examination Board Matura Test
- 33. Aesthetics Colour depends on context
- 34. Aesthetics Colour not the same to everyone
- 35. Aesthetics Colour limits to perception XKCD Colour Survey 2010
- 36. Aesthetics Colour reach for a palette Brewer Colour Palette
- 37. Gestalt laws of grouping proximity
- 38. Gestalt laws of grouping similarity
- 39. Gestalt laws of grouping closure
- 40. Gestalt laws of grouping continuation
- 41. 3D is bad (on 2D displays) CC BY SA 4.0 Robin Gower 2014
- 42. http://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/please-dont-use-
- 43. Perspective Distortion CC BY SA 4.0 WikiMedia Commons SharkD 2007
- 44. Perception vs Perspective
- 45. GuidanceGuidance
- 46. Chart Junk 3d pies are a great way to deceive 2008 Macworld Expo via Engadget
- 47. Chart Junk you can lie with line charts too Florida Dept of Law Enforcement via Reuters
- 48. Chart Junk improves memorability Bateman et al (2010) Useful Junk? via
- 49. Data-Ink Ratio Tufte (1983) The Visual Display of Quantitative Data-ink Ratio Data-ink Total ink used to print the graphic 1 proportion of graphic that can be erased = = proportion of a graphics ink devoted to the non-redundant display of data-information =
- 50. Data-Ink Ratio - Example CC BY NC 2.0 Tim Bray
- 51. Data-Ink Ratio http://darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-
- 52. Over-plotting Open Government License DataGM 2013
- 53. Over-plotting - smaller Open Government License DataGM 2013
- 54. Over-plotting - transparency Open Government License DataGM 2013
- 55. Over-plotting logarithmic scale Open Government License DataGM 2013
- 56. Over-plotting binning Open Government License DataGM 2013
- 57. Sparklines Robin Gower (2009) Infonomics AutoReporter
- 58. Oliver Byrne's Euclid 1847
- 59. Small Multiples IKEA discovered via Tufte twitter
- 60. Small Multiples 200 Calories wisegeek.com
- 61. Jason Lockwood 2012 Perceptual Edge
- 62. Stop Making Pie Charts! An opinionated guide to the craft of data visualisation Robin Gower Open Data Manchester 30.06.15 infonomics.ltd.uk @robsteranium