Visual Perception

• Looking for data? Andy Kirk has a comprehensive list of sources.
• Do pie charts really deserve all that hate? 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.
• Inspiration: 538's Oscar predictions. Note the use of annotations. You are strongly encouraged to look at Susie Lu's annotations package.

• Can we reverse-engineer human perception?
• Melting turns wide data tables into narrow, long data tables.
• Small multiples: repeat the same small plot over and over.