Hopefully if you’re viewing the eclipse today, you’ll be using one of the safe methods that won’t harm your eyes! … But if you’re somewhat of a trickster, here’s an optical illusion you can send your friends after the eclipse, that might make them wo…
Tag: perception
What you see is what you get … maybe!
When using visual analytics, it’s important to realize that WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) is not always true. By recognizing a few optical illusions and tricks, you might become a better data analyst … and have some fun along the way. Let’s start with the Koffka Rings […]
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Creating a better graph to show trade deficit
I recently saw a cool graph showing the US import/export trade deficit. But after studying it a bit, I realized I was perceiving it wrong. Follow along in this blog, to find out what the problem was, and how I redesigned the graph to avoid it. I was looking through dadaviz.com […]
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Was the dress blue … or was it teal, sky, turquoise, or spindrift?
I saw the dress photo as blue & black. If you’re a female, even if we perceived the exact same color, you might might not have said ‘blue & black’. That’s because women have a larger color vocabulary than men, and you might have elaborated on exactly which blue and […]
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