In the blog series, Subtleties of Color by Robert Simmon, he discusses the importance, power, and underlying issues with using color. Like most forms of retinal indicators, colors are complicated and become even more complicated when you begin exploring the psychology and mental processes that go into our perception of…
This week I focused on Trumps days in office spent golfing. During his time in office (980 days) he has spent 227 days golfing. This number has significantly increased in the past year, where he has spent a total of 110 days golfing. Color Orientation Scale Hue Shape Texture Position…
In the introductory chapter of Kieran Healy’s book “Data Visualization for Social Science” the power of data visualization is described. Data visualization can be - and usually is much more successful for conveying a better understanding of data to the human mind. Successful data visualization can rely on many…
Wednesday Of the many important reasons to worry about the thousands of fires raging in the world’s largest rainforest, oxygen supply is not one of them.Thursday AAA conducted a separate survey on red light running and found that about one-third of drivers who responded admitted to having sped…
A heat map is a term that appears to encompass several different forms of recording data. The uses of a heat map vary greatly, but the design of a heat map relies heavily on the use of color to help the viewer understand the information. The most popular way a…