The Week in Vis: Week 08 - Why Vis Works (and doesn't)

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This week is a bit of a grab bag of topics. We’ll try to take a step back and ask the question “why does Vis work?” We’ll look at it from the perspective of perception and cognition (going back to the readings that we did not do as part of “Why Vis” in week 2). These will set the stage for our upcoming discussions of perception. We’ll also talk about some statistical issues, which will be relevant as we do exploratory data analysis in Design Exercise 7: Exploratory Data Analysis with the ATUS data.