Class 17
Effective and Misleading Visualizations
Description
This class examines design choices that can make visualizations more informative or potentially misleading. Understanding these choices is important because scales, labels, chart types, and other design decisions can affect how users interpret the same underlying data.
Motivation
What makes a visualization useful, accurate, or misleading?
Review
The prior class introduced visualization as a method for communicating analytical results. This class moves from creating a visualization to evaluating whether its design accurately and clearly represents the underlying evidence.