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Crafting truthful data graphs

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  • Graph workflow model
    • Information system
    • False pretences
  • Graph objective
    • Statistical context
    • Data properties
    • Intended audience
  • Qualities of data graphics
    • Decoding accuracy
    • Completeness
    • Encoding relevance
    • Encoding consistency
    • Decoding efficiency
    • Simplifying complexity
    • Encoding design
  • Data management
    • Data generating process
    • Data validation
    • Missing values
    • Recasting scales
    • Ratios
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    • Extreme values
  • Visual implantations
    • Points to lines to areas
    • Case study
    • Volumes
  • Retinal variables
    • Colour hue
    • Color value
    • Size
    • Shape
    • Orientation
    • Texture
    • Motion
  • Graph identification
    • External identification
    • Internal identification
    • Direct identification
    • Fonts
  • Graph enhancement
    • Scale range
    • Multiple axes
    • Line connection
    • Reference lines
    • Reference areas
    • Aspect ratio
    • Ordering
  • Visual decoding/perception
    • Visual illusions
    • Gestalt theory
      • Figure/Ground
      • Proximity
      • Similarity
      • Enclosure
      • Closure
      • Connection
      • Common fate
    • Perceived magnitude
    • Colour limitations
    • The problem with pies
  • Exploratory data analysis
    • Distributional form
    • Assessing normality
    • [0,+∞) variables
    • Linearising relations
    • (–∞,+∞) variables
    • [0,1] variables
  • Reference list

Connection

The Gestalt principle of connection explains that we perceive objects that are visually connected through line implantations as groups.

Connection is a more powerful principle of perceptual organisation by to comparison to similarity and even proximity, as it overrides the overarching principle of Figure/Ground by making a connecting line part of the Figure.

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Demetris Christodoulou

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