> Cleveland examined how accurately our visual system can process visual elements or “perceptual units” representing underlying data. These elements include markers aligned on the same scale (e.g., #DotPlots, #ScatterPlots, ordinary #BarCharts), the length of lines that are not aligned on the same scale (e.g., stacked bar plots), area (#PieCharts and mosaic plots), angles (also pie charts), shading/color, volume, curvature, and direction...
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> Cleveland examined how accurately our visual system can process visual elements or “perceptual units” representing underlying data. These elements include markers aligned on the same scale (e.g., #DotPlots, #ScatterPlots, ordinary #BarCharts), the length of lines that are not aligned on the same scale (e.g., stacked bar plots), area (#PieCharts and mosaic plots), angles (also pie charts), shading/color, volume, curvature, and direction...
#WilliamCleveland #RobertMcGill