Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2007/08 - Gruppe 09 - Aufgabe 3
Poor Graphic
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Critics
Data-Ink Ratio
Following this principle unnecessary non-data ink will be removed. Therefore the background picture and the unnecessary graphics will be removed. Furthermore unnecessary data ink will be removed. Unnecessary data ink is from our point of view….. In the next step the most important data should be emphasized. Since the attention of the reader should be drawn on the information that men more often dream about violence and conflicts, whereas women lead in having depressive dreams, this information should be emphasized with some special markup. For example, the bars, which having the dreams of the men ahead, could be colored with a more saturated color.
Visual Means to Highlight Data
As mentioned above we want to draw the reader’s attention to the difference between women and men’s dreams. As the most important data in the graphic is that men dream more about violence, this part should be emphasized. Therefore the men’s violence bars could be drawn with a darker color.
References
[Few Article, 2004] Stephen Few, Elegance Through Simplicity, Article about redesigning graphs, http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=N2ATDQWY5VYKSQSNDBGCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=49400920, accessed 29.11.2007.