User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 4 – The Experiment Tobias Komischke / Wed, Jun 19, 2013 Visualizing data instead of presenting them as ASCII in lists or tables makes sense because we’re much better in processing graphical than numerical data (the so-called pictorial superiority effect)....
Blog series: User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 3 – What is this??? Tobias Komischke / Mon, Jun 18, 2012 Recently, TIME magazine published this info graphic about top-earning movies. It’s kinda interesting. I spent much more time looking at this than I normally would have. So by that definition, the graphic...
“Pie charts kill people” vs. “We want pie charts!” Tobias Komischke / Fri, Aug 12, 2011 Last month at the Human-Computer Interaction International conference in Orlando, I came across some interesting research results. The be honest, the only reason why I paid attention to those was that...
Telling a Good Story with Interactive Line Charts Amy Quinn / Tue, Feb 2, 2010 The New York Times does a great job using interactive graphics to tell a story. Recently the New York Times reported on the details of the United States 2011 budget proposal and how the projected budget...
Blog series: User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 2 - The Pizza Effect Tobias Komischke / Tue, Jan 5, 2010 The underlying data set is pretty simple. It consists of just 8 numbers which are used for four target/actual comparisons: how many swine flu vaccinations 4 organizations have requested and how many...
New blog series: User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 1: The Chinese Bubbles Tobias Komischke / Sun, Nov 22, 2009 One of the trends in UI design is data visualization. With data volume and complexity continuously rising, data visualization becomes more and more important as a means to translate data into information...
Content for User Experience Design Patterns Jason Beres [Infragistics] / Tue, Jun 9, 2009 I want to thank everyone that came to the presentation today, there were some good questions and I hope the topic will start to permeate in your teams when building new software. Get the slides here...