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storytelling with data: #50 data viz research with Steven Franconeri

Feb 17, 2022

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Data Visualization in the Real World

01:53

Visual Thinking Lab - Who's Doing Good Work?

02:14

Using Visualsition to Show People Where to Look

03:42

Introduction

2min

Is It a Pop Quiz?

2min

The Power of the Visual System

2min

The Visual Thinking Lab

2min

How Do You Know Where You're Looking?

2min

Visual Comparison

2min

Data Visualization in the Real World

2min

Do You Care About the Average?

2min

How Do You Go From a Research Finding to a Public Facing Paper?

1min

10.

The Science of Visual Data Communication

2min

11.

Is This a Good Review of the State of the Art of Visualization?

5min

12.

Is Your Visual System Really Good at Pulling Statistics From the Visual World?

2min

13.

Using the Visual System to Show the Statistics

3min

14.

Using Visualsition to Show People Where to Look

4min

15.

Story Telling With Data - The Perfect Way to Start Your Day

5min

16.

Data Visualization Web Sigts

2min

17.

Don't Just Declutter, You Also Have to Focus Attention

2min

18.

Clutter Is in the Eye of the Beholder

2min

19.

Is Fibank to You?

3min

20.

What's the Role of the National Science Foundation?

2min

21.

Visual Thinking Lab - Who's Doing Good Work?

2min

22.

How Much Time Do You Need to Spend on Visuals?

3min

23.

What's Next for Data Visualization?

3min

“I want to be able to show it and say, doesn’t that feel good? And you know what? We actually know it works well, it’s not just your intuition.” In this episode, Cole talks with Northwestern University professor and director of the Visual Thinking Lab, Dr. Steven Franconeri. Hear about research that helps us understand and harness the limits of our visual system and how it can be translated into practical terms to help you design better graphs and dashboards. Cole and Steve discuss several recent studies, how to bridge the chasm between academia and practitioners, some of the unsolved problems of data visualization, and more. Related links:

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The Visual Thinking Lab
Journal: Psychological Science in the Public Interest
Paper: The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works, single page summary
Paper: Declutter and Focus: Empirically Evaluating Design Guidelines for Effective Data Communication
Paper: Visual Arrangements of Bar Charts Influence Comparisons in Viewer Takeaways
Paper: Measures of the Benefit of Direct Encoding of Data Deltas for Data Pair Relation Perception
Uncertainty: FiveThirtyEight’s 2020 Election Forecast
Book: The Thinking Eye, the Seeing Brain (James Enns)
Book: Visual Thinking for Design (Colin Ware)
People mentioned: Lace Padilla, Jessica Hullman, Jeff Zacks, Priti Shah, Christie Nothelfer, Cindy Xiong, Matt Kay

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