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List each item you identify using the following format.  The easiest way is to copy and paste the template.  For now don't bother grouping them, we'll collect a bunch first and then see what the appropriate categories are based on what we find.
 
  
Google Doc instead?  Yes
 
 
Pattern
 
# Another pithy idea.  Why it's important.  How to accomplish it. ['''Where It's From''', page number/URL. curator initials]
 
 
Example
 
# Choose color combinations with good contrast.  This makes it easier for people to separate the principle components.  Identify a set to use and then ask your colleagues for feedback, use a web-based color choosing tool.  ['''Charlie's Book of Viz''', page 33.  cfp]
 
 
Entries
 
 
 
Start-Up
 
* "Excellence in statistical graphics consists of complex ideas communicated with clarity, precision, and efficiency. Graphical displays should:
 
** show the data
 
** induce the viewer to think about the substance rather than about methodology, graphic design, the technology of graphic production, or something else
 
** avoid distorting what the data have to say
 
** present many numbers in a small space
 
** make large data sets coherent
 
** encourage the eye to compare different p[pieces of data
 
** reveal the data at several levels of detail, from a broad overview to the fine structure
 
** serve a reasonably clear purpose: description, exploration, tabulation, or decoration
 
** be closely integrated with the statistical and verbal descriptions of a data set"
 
** - "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information", pg. 13
 
* "Graphics should be reserved for the richer, more complex, more difficult statistical material." - "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information", pg. 30
 
*Integrate words/numbers/pictures in one space (“The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”, Chapter 9, p.180-181):
 
** Integrate supportive text to the plotting filed to make the information perception easier for the viewer
 
** The size of type could be quite small
 
** Keep table, graph, words packaged in one place of the page – they all speak the same information
 
** Words on and around the graphics are highly effective in telling viewers how to allocate their attention to the various parts of data display
 
** For graphics words should tell the viewer how to read the design and not what to read in terms of content
 
** Make the reader choose how to perceive an information, do whatever it takes to understand the material (from presentation)
 
* Manners of presenting (from the lecture)
 
** Research problem, examples of problem solutions
 
** Content: what the problem is, relevance, solution
 
** Dedicate 8 min of you presentation for audience to pre-read of the material
 
** Present the material as it was given for the pre-read. Nothing like repetition improves the understanding
 
** Credibility on speech: give the reasons to believe - documentation
 
** Conclude with question to personalize/particularize
 
** Inefficiency of PowerPoint – it is stuck in time
 
 
 
== Reading Summaries==
 
* [[Scientific and engineering - Mobeen]]
 
* [[Financial Data - Elena]]
 
* [[Decision making Based on Evidence - Emily]]
 

Latest revision as of 07:30, 27 August 2012