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| == Aufgabenstellung ==
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| [http://ieg.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~gschwand/teaching/infovis_ue_ws08/infovis_ue_aufgabe2.html Beschreibung der Aufgabe 2]
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| === Zu beurteilende Tabelle ===
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| [[Image:ImageRRH.JPG]]
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| == Critical Review ==
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| We reviewed the given table based on the table design guidelines by Few [2004] and found the following problems:
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| === Delineating Columns and Rows ===
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| A grid is used to delineating columns and rows, which should be avoided.
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| === Arranging Data ===
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| The table has multiple columns called "Rank", which contain the same data.
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| We don't know if this is by coincidence, or redundancy.
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| The columns have different widths which groups (and separates) the data. This seems not to be on purpose.
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| The data rows are not sorted by any column.
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| === Formatting Text ===
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| All columns containing numbers are centered.
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| Some numbers (e.g., 4.3) only have one digit right of the decimal point. Consequently these numbers are narrower than the other numbers in the column and are not well aligned.
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| Some of the columns (Rank) have a smaller font size.
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| We compared the asterisk symbols and found out that three different font families are used.
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| The table contains footnotes.
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| == Improved Table ==
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| [[Image:ImageRRH-1.png]]
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| == Improvements ==
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| === Delineating Columns and Rows ===
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| We removed the grid and slightly increased line height.
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| Rulers are used to seperate the header from the table-body.
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| Additional whitespace was added between the columns "All Ss" and "Hard News" to enforce the bond between "Hard News" and "Soft News". The same was done for "HN-SN", "t" and "α" resp.
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| === Arranging Data ===
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| We created three column groups for "All Ss", "Hard News", and "Soft News" to structure the data.
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| Each of these groups contain a column for the value and a column for the rank.
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| As said above, it is unclear whether the rank is redundant (and should kept only once) or describes three different rankings. We assumed the latter, thus kept all columns.
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| Instead of "M1" and "M2" we used the variables "HN" and "SN".
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| We reordered the data rows by rank. Since the three rankings could be as well different it would be also possible to order by the first column.
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| To avoid footnotes we created an additional column.
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| === Formatting Text ===
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| We used only one font family and one font size
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| We applied the same number format and precision for all values to improve alignment.
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| Columns containing numbers are aligned to the right.
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| The resulting table can be browsed easily and looks good.
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| Even if it's size would be downscaled by ~15%, the content would be comprehensible.
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| == Links ==
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| * [[Teaching:TUW_-_UE_InfoVis_WS_2008/09|InfoVis:Wiki UE Homepage]]
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| * [http://ieg.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~gschwand/teaching/infovis_ue_ws08/ UE InfoVis]
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| * [[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2008/09 - Gruppe 06|Gruppe 06]]
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| == References ==
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| * [Few, 2004] Stephen Few. Show Me the Numbers - Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten. Analytics Press, Oakland, CA, 2004.
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