Graphical Components and Mapping Strategies
This section discusses:
- Graphical components i.e. individual components of graphs
- Mapping strategies i.e. mapping between data and graphics
It is important to know about graphical components and mapping strategies because it helps to:
- evaluate visualizations: with an in-depth understanding of the above, we will be able to criticise design choices
- re-design evaluations
Visual Encoding refers to the strategies/rules used to turn data into graphical representations. More precisely, it refers to the mapping between:
- data itemsvisual marks
- data attributesvisual channels
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