Within the reading, Subtleties of Color, Robert Simmon touches upon the difference between the way we see color versus the way computers sees color. Though computers reads color in a linear way, our eyes can not perceive it like so because some colors look brighter to us than others. Thus,…
Within the introductory chapter of Healy's Data Visualization for Social Science, the importance of data visualization is emphasized. Seeing data visually allows for us to see correlation and relationships between data sets that are not visible by looking at just numbers. However, the outcome of a particular graph can vary…
Tuesday Frank Lloyd Wright designs a 30 feet tall slender "dendriform" column that tapers down to a mere 9" diameter and is able to hold 5 times the weight of its predecessors.Wednesday The death toll on the coronavirus infection has reached 170 as of January 29th.Thursday According to…
Invented by John Tukey, the Box Plot, also known as the box and whisker plot, is a two dimensional plot that shows a point and its first (and sometimes second) standard deviation. It is a useful depiction of the fact that data is often not simply discrete points, but ranges…