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The important question here is: “Are people able to interpret and trust their models?”. In order to interpret a visualization effectively you need to first understand the visual metaphor and second the visual metaphor itself needs to convey information in the least ambiguous/uncertain way possible. Unfortunately, not all visual representations are like that. A notable example is multidimensional …
This step is crucial and yet often neglected. Once results are represented, people need to interpret them and understand what they mean. This is a very complex cognitive process that links together several pieces of knowledge. Think abo…
…n think that the choice of which graphical representation to use is the most important one to make. However, deciding what to visualize is often equally, if not more, important, than deciding how to visualize it. Take this simple example. Sometime a graph provides better answers to a question when the informa…