Graphical Perception and Graphical Methods for Analyzing Scientific Data

• DOI: 10.1126/science.229.4716.828
• Publication Date: 2006-10-05T19:42:50Z
• Authors: William S. Cleveland; Robert McGill
• Keywords: Statistical graphics; Graphical display; Smoothing; Graphical model; Graphical user interface

Graphical perception is the visual decoding of quantitative and qualitative information encoded on graphs. Recent investigations have uncovered basic principles human graphical that important implications for display data. The computer graphics revolution has stimulated invention many methods analyzing presenting scientific data, such as box plots, two-tiered error bars, scatterplot smoothing, dot charts, graphing a log base 2 scale.