How to Use Visualization to Make Decisions

Liz: When you have complex especially probabilistic data that it does help some people to have that information visualized because we haven't evolved in any way to understand probabilities. Liz: There's a big body of research that demonstrates how poor we are at reasoning with probabilistic information so that's a perfect candidate for trying to use visualizations. The issue is that anytime you visualize uncertain information you're making it concrete when we visualize something we put it in pixels on a page or on the screen but uncertainty is abstract, she says. LZ: We inherently have to require our users to take a concrete thing and in their mind translate it to something abstract which can be very error prone

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