Prompt for Friday, February 24
Visual Perception
Looking for data? Andy Kirk has a
comprehensive list of sources
.
Do pie charts really deserve
all
that
shade
?
Maybe not
.
Let's find out for ourselves! Here we'll replicate studies by Cleveland and McGill (Science, 1985) and Heer and Bostock (CHI, 2010).
Take this survey
.
Can we reverse-engineer human perception?
Data: melting and grouping.