Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2006/07 - Gruppe 03 - Aufgabe 1 - Data Density
Definition
[Brath, 1997]
Charts and Graphs
In The Visual Display of Graphical Information of Edward Tufte, a milestone in the theory of graph design, principles of graph design are discussed. One of them is: Try to maximise the data density. [Hunt and Mashhoudy, 2002]
While the human eye has the ability to detect large amounts of information within a very small area, statistical graphs often fail to take advantage of this ability. To messure the information content of a graph he definses the data density. [Hunt and Mashhoudy, 2002]
References
[Barth, 1997] R. Barth. Metrics for effective information visualization. In Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '97), pages 0–108, DC, USA, October 1997. IEEE Computer Society Washington
[Hunt and Mashhoudy, 2002] Neville Hunt and Housh Mashhoudy, Discovering Important Statistical Concepts Using SpreadSheets. Created at: January 29, 2002. Retrieved at: October 28, 2006. http://home.ched.coventry.ac.uk/Volume/vol0/philosop.htm.