Graphical Perception

Cleveland, W. S., & McGill, R. (1984). Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Methods. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 79(387), 531-554.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1984

DOI

10.1080/01621459.1984.10478080

Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.1984.10478080

Cited from

journalism_mass_communication

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Representational Modality
  • The same data, different modalities, different stories.

    This sourceEmpirical ranking of graphical encodings (position, length, angle, area, color) by perceptual accuracy; shows how chart-type choice (map vs. bar vs. time series) determines what patterns viewers extract from identical data.

Domain-specific

• Bubble Chart
  • Optional colour, stroke, shape, facet, or label channels may encode categories or further variables, but they are additions rather than part of the minimal identity.

    This sourceFoundational primary work distinguishing quantitative judgments by position, length, angle, area, volume, and other visual tasks.

• Waterfall Chart
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.

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