7 papers
Should We Dangle a Carrot? The Effect of Performance-based Incentives in Visualization Experiments
Abhraneel Sarma, Matthew Kay, Sheng Long +2
A perennial research question in visualization involves identifying which visual encodings for a particular dataset are most effective for users in performing a specific task. The…
Visual Stenography: Feature Recreation and Preservation in Sketches of Noisy Line Charts
Rifat Ara Proma, Michael Correll, Ghulam Jilani Quadri +1
Line charts surface many features in time series data, from trends to periodicity to peaks and valleys. However, not every potentially important feature in the data may correspond…
A Priest, a Rabbi, and an Atheist Walk Into an Error Bar: Religious Meditations on Uncertainty Visualization
Michael Correll, Lane Harrison
In this provocation, we suggest that much (although not all) current uncertainty visualization simplifies the myriad forms of uncertainty into error bars around an estimate. This a…
The Many Tendrils of the Octopus Map
Eduardo Puerta, Shani Spivak, Michael Correll
Conspiratorial thinking can connect many distinct or distant ills to a central cause. This belief has visual form in the octopus map: a map where a central force (for instance a na…
Complexity as Design Material
Florian Windhager, Alfie Abduhl-Rahman, Mark-Jan Bludau +5
Complexity is often seen as a inherent negative in information design, with the job of the designer being to reduce or eliminate complexity, and with principles like Tufte's "data-…
Data Guards: Challenges and Solutions for Fostering Trust in Data
Nicole Sultanum, Dennis Bromley, Michael Correll
From dirty data to intentional deception, there are many threats to the validity of data-driven decisions. Making use of data, especially new or unfamiliar data, therefore requires…
When the Body Became Data: Historical Data Cultures and Anatomical Illustration
Michael Correll, Laura A. Garrison
With changing attitudes around knowledge, medicine, art, and technology, the human body has become a source of information and, ultimately, shareable and analyzable data. Centuries…