This document discusses visual categorization and data visualizations. It mentions rapid visual categorization by the human brain and references several papers on visualizing data dimensions and statistics. Examples of data visualizations shown during a discussion are also listed, including works by David McCandles, Nathan Yau, Joseph Minard, and Sarah Illenberger.

1. Visual categorization
and
data visualizations
Vyacheslav Ivanov
TU Eindhoven
v.Ivanov@tue.nl

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8. Brendan Dawes

9. Brendan Dawes

10. rapid visual categorization
instant
always working
not precise

11. your own personal

12. 1. Make simplest segments

13. Utochkin, 2015

14. See Im & Halberda, 2013
for details

15. Poltoratski & Xu, 2013

16. 2. analyze segments

17. Szafir et al, 2016

18. Szafir et al, 2016

19. Alexander et al., 2014

20. map data dimensions to visual features

21. the most important data statistic
=>
the most salient ensemble statistic

22. UNFOCUS
Do you still see the most
important thing?

23. Invisible Infrastructure by Brendan Dawes

24. Examples shown during discussion
“Based on a true story” by David McCandles
“A Day in the Life of Americans” by Nathan Yau
“Napoleon’s March” by Joseph Minard
“Die Große Sex Umfrage” by Sarah Illenberger