Looking at Data (b)

Soc 690S: Week 01

Kieran Healy

Duke University

January 2025

Looking at Data (part 2)

Pre-Attentive Processing

Color only, N = 20

Color only, N = 100

Shape only, N = 20

Shape only, N = 100

Color and Shape, N=100

Colin Ware

Colin Ware

Colin Ware

Gestalt Inferences and Design

George Cave

George Cave

George Cave

Encodings or mappings for data

What’s a graph, anyway?

Visual tasks in decoding graphs

William Cleveland

William Cleveland

William Cleveland

William Cleveland

William Cleveland

William Cleveland and Michael Bostock

A rough hierarchy of mappings for data

Tamara Munzner

Tamara Munzner

Honesty & judgment

CLARITY

CLARITY

HONESTY

CLARITY

HONESTY

TRUTH

CONTEXT

CONTEXT

CONVENTION

CONTEXT

CONVENTION

MEANING

Graphing in practice

Workhorses

Histogram

Workhorses

Scatterplot

Workhorses

Trend

Workhorses

Point-and-range

Workhorses

Faceting

Show Ponies

Congressional comparison

Show Ponies

Several plots at once

Show Ponies

Beeswarm plot

Show Ponies

Lexis Surface

Show Ponies

Faceted maps

Unicorns …

The inevitable Minard

Unicorns …

Swedish mortality

… or monsters

Network chords