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Given the vast amount of junky infographics, I generally agree with their philosophy. They do, however, seem to ignore some of the research on the value of char
by jimt67 13y ago
Given the vast amount of junky infographics, I generally agree with their philosophy. They do, however, seem to ignore some of the research on the value of chartjunk. Like this paper, which won a best paper award at CHI '10: http://hci.usask.ca/publications/view.php?id=173 http://hci.usask.ca/publications/view.php?id=173
- cscheid 13y agoAnd then there's this, about that paper: http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2010/05/8-red-flags-about-the-useful-chartjunk-paper.html http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2010/05/8-red-flag... Edit: And this http://junkcharts.typepad.com/numbersruleyourworld/2010/05/more-questions-than-participants.html http://junkcharts.typepad.com/numbersruleyourworld/2010/05/m...
- jimt67 13y agoThere are other studies (e.g., http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=6327282&abstractAccess=no&userType=inst http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=6327... ) A Google Scholar search will turn up others...the HCI literature seems to prefer the term visual embellishments to chartjunk.
- danso 13y agoI'm inclined to believe their findings, in the same way that I'd agree putting a picture of Miley Cyrus as the lead art for a story about unemployment rates would make you notice and remember that one story more than other unemployment rate stories. Quick question on the paper's methodology...is 20 a big enough sample size?
- jimt67 13y agoIt may or it may not be...see: http://www.uvm.edu/~bbeckage/Teaching/DataAnalysis/AssignedPapers/Cohen_1990.pdf http://www.uvm.edu/~bbeckage/Teaching/DataAnalysis/AssignedP...