Reflections on Subtleties of Color

In the blog series Robert Simon reemphasized the relationship between color and data visualization —color should enhance clarity, aids storytelling, and draws a viewer into your dataset— touched the importance about assigning appropriate color palette based on the data type. He also mentioned the intuitiveness of color as well as…

Reflections on What Makes Bad Figures Bad

In this chapter Kieran Healy has grouped bad visualization figures mainly into three categories: aesthetic (visual), substantive (contents) and perceptual (psychological perception). He points out that for most visually bad visualizations, it’s not as efficient as other because of duplicated labels and pointless effects. I strongly agree with this…

Scatter Plot

What’s scatter plot?Scatter plot is a type of diagram using Cartesian coordinates to display values for typically two variables for a set of data. It shows the correlation between variables. In two dimensions, it uses dots to represent the values obtained for two different variables, one plotted along…