Lecture by Dr. Steven Franconeri
Title: Thinking with Data Visualizations, Fast and Slow
Abstract: Your visual system evolved and developed to process the scenes, faces, and objects of the natural world. Using that system to process the artificial world of data visualizations is an adaptation that can lead to fast and powerful—or slow and inefficient—visual processing, as we will experience through interactive demonstrations of new research findings on visual capacity limits. Understanding these limits produces guidelines for constructing effective visualizations for both visual analytics and visual communication of patterns in data, and explains how display designs and motivated cognition can bias interpretations of those patterns.
Twitter: @SteveFranconeri
Research: https://visualthinking.psych.northwestern.edu/