The Arrangement of Marks Impacts Afforded Messages: Ordering, Partitioning, Spacing, and Coloring in Bar Charts

• Published in: IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 1 - 11
• Main Authors: Fygenson, Racquel, Franconeri, Steven, Bertini, Enrico
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.01.2024; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Affordances; Bars; Birds; Charts; Coloring; Combinatorial analysis; COVID-19; Data visualization; diagrams and plots; General public; Human-subjects qualitative studies; Human-subjects quantitative studies; Messages; Methodologies; Partitioning; Perception & cognition; Recommender systems; Task analysis; Visualization

Data visualizations present a massive number of potential messages to an observer. One might notice that one group's average is larger than another's, or that a difference in values is smaller than a difference between two others, or any of a combinatorial explosion of other possibilities....