Task-Based Effectiveness of Basic Visualizations

• Published in: IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics Vol. 25; no. 7; pp. 2505 - 2512
• Main Authors: Saket, Bahador, Endert, Alex, Demiralp, Cagatay
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.07.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Automobiles; Bars; Correlation; Data analysis; Data points; Data visualization; Decision trees; graphical perception; Information visualization; Motion pictures; System effectiveness; Tables (data); Task analysis; Visualization; visualization effectiveness; visualization types

Visualizations of tabular data are widely used; understanding their effectiveness in different task and data contexts is fundamental to scaling their impact. However, little is known about how basic tabular data visualizations perform across varying data analysis tasks. In this paper, we report resu...