What Graphics Should You Use in Psychology?

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Jerry Vicki: What do you think is the biggest flaw or the most common mistake in how people make charts and present their data these days? "They try five times, five different graphics or maybe 10. They have a programmer. It does us something special and they cherry pick the results," he says. He advises researchers to use utterly conventional graphics that are in the very best pay, very best graphics in your field.

So you have some information — how are you going to share it with and present it to the rest of the world? There has been a long history of organizing and displaying information without putting too much thought into it, but Edward Tufte has done an enormous amount to change that. Beginning with The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and continuing to his new book Seeing With Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth, Tufte’s works have shaped how we think about charts, graphs, and other forms of presenting data. We talk about information, design, and how thinking about data reflects how we think about the world.

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Edward Tufte received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He has been a professor of public affairs at Princeton and of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale, where he is currently emeritus professor. He is the founder and owner of Graphics Press, and his books have sold nearly 2 million copies worldwide. He is an active artist and sculptor, as well as a touring lecturer.

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