Graphical Perception: The Visual Decoding of Quantitative Information on Graphical Displays of Data Export

@article{citeulike:238025, abstract = {Studies in graphical perception, both theoretical and experimental, provide a scientific foundation for the construction area of statistical graphics. From these studies a paradigm that has important applications for practice has begun to emerge. The paradigm is based on elementary codes: Basic geometric and textural aspects of a graph that encode the quantitative information. The methodology that can be invoked to study graphical perception is illustrated by an investigation of the shape parameter of a two-variable graph, a topic that has had much discussion, but little scientific study, for at least 70 years.}, author = {Cleveland, William S. and Mcgill, Robert}, citeulike-article-id = {238025}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2981473}, keywords = {diagnostics, graphical\_methods, statistics}, posted-at = {2005-06-25 23:29:09}, priority = {2}, title = {Graphical Perception: The Visual Decoding of Quantitative Information on Graphical Displays of Data}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2981473} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:238025 L3 - citeulike-article-id:238025 N2 - Studies in graphical perception, both theoretical and experimental, provide a scientific foundation for the construction area of statistical graphics. From these studies a paradigm that has important applications for practice has begun to emerge. The paradigm is based on elementary codes: Basic geometric and textural aspects of a graph that encode the quantitative information. The methodology that can be invoked to study graphical perception is illustrated by an investigation of the shape parameter of a two-variable graph, a topic that has had much discussion, but little scientific study, for at least 70 years. TI - Graphical Perception: The Visual Decoding of Quantitative Information on Graphical Displays of Data KW - diagnostics KW - graphical_methods KW - statistics AU - Cleveland, William AU - Mcgill, Robert UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/2981473 ER -