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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Fundamentals of graphical perception
FlowingData has a great post about learning the fundamentals of graphical perception. In particular, the common techniques for encoding quantitative information are ordered by how accurately people can decode them according to William S. Cleveland and Robert McGill’s paper Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Methods. For a lot more [...]
