What Makes a Visualization Memorable?
Harvard University · Harvard University Press · +3 more institutions
Abstract
An ongoing debate in the Visualization community concerns the role that visualization types play in data understanding. In human cognition, understanding and memorability are intertwined. As a first step towards being able to ask questions about impact and effectiveness, here we ask: 'What makes a visualization memorable?' We ran the largest scale visualization study to date using 2,070 single-panel visualizations, categorized with visualization type (e.g., bar chart, line graph, etc.), collected from news media sites, government reports, scientific journals, and infographic sources. Each visualization was annotated with additional attributes, including ratings for data-ink ratios and visual densities. Using…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 22.09
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 46
Authors
7- MAMichelle A. BorkinCorresponding
Harvard University, Harvard University Press
- AAAzalea A. Vo
Harvard University
- ZBZoya Bylinskii
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Intel (United States)
- PIPhillip Isola
Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- SSShashank Sunkavalli
Harvard University
Topics & keywords
- Visualization
- Bar chart
- Computer science
- Pie chart
- Information visualization
- Data visualization
- Visual analytics
- Infographic
- Reduced inequalities