Design Guidelines
What is Tufte's first design principle?
Comparinsons
What is the role of white spaces according to Knaflic on visualizations?
White spaces enforce visual pace
What is one visualization that resembles a food product?
A pie chart or a lollipop chart.
What is commonly confused with causation?
What type of data are the days of the week (e.g., Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)?
Ordinal
What is a popular ratio that helps assess the clutter on a visualization?
Data-ink or signal-to-noise ratio.
What is Ben Shneiderman's mantra?
Overview first, followed by zoom and filter, and then details on-demand.
What type of visualization is often used to depict the distribution of a dataset?
Histogram
What is typically a gap we miss to notice with data?
Data-reality gap.
What is a popular old game that utilizes clutter to hide the main character?
Where is Waldo?
What is the gestalt principle utilized by FedEx to hide an arrow in their logo?
Closure
What type of visualization (in terms of form and function) is the Fifa radar chart we did last week?
Exploratory and interactive
Popular visualization that is used to compare the relationship of two continuous variables?
Scatterplot
What does Jones define as an eight data pitfall?
Biased baseline
What is a color pre-attentive attribute that enables general estimations?
Sharding and saturation or color hue.
What is Knaflic's fifth guideline?
Think like a designer
Think about the typical colors that are used to represent the Democrats and Republican parties. What kind of color scheme is this?
Binary
What is a popular visualization that is used in an organization to show its hierarchy?
Tree diagram
What is the common data pitfall when comparing data or drawing inferences?
Statistical slipups
What is the color language that is used in printed documents?
Who is the author of the Napoleon campaign map?
Charles Joseph Minard
Describe in terms of function the ideal for exploratory and explanatory visualization.
Exploratory: Interactive
Explanatory: Static
Diverging bar chart
What was the data problem with the Mars Climate Orbiter, which caused its disintegration on September 23, 1999?
It was a mathematical calculation due to one party using the imperial scale system and the other the international scale system.
What are the five elements of data calculations in Tableau?
Comments (//)
Parameters (variables)
Operators (e.g., +,-,%, /)
String and numbers
Functions (e.g., sum, avg)