The reading Subtleties of Color, Robert Simmon very clearly talks about the different ways in which color can be perceived and how it effects the way in which viewers interpret data. Humans view color in three different parts, hue, saturation, and lightness. Color has the ability to enhance data and…
Kierann Healy’s chapter on ‘badness’ in information graphics walks the reader through the different ways a designer can make a bad or deceiving graph that will not be properly interpreted by the viewer. The main message that can be extracted from this reading is that there are many ways…
Dendrograms are a type of diagram that represents data by stacking a tree form that connects points. There is hierarchical clustering as well. The height of the branches is a variable that contributes to the representation of the data. U shaped lines connect the data. Dendrograms are used in different…