Reading: Maciejewski, Ross (2011) Data Representations, Transformations, and Statistics for Visual Reasoning

• “One of the key components of visually representing data is choosing the appropriate color scale. The choice of the color scale is a complicated design choice that depends both on the data type, the problem domain and the applied visual representation. However, there is no ‘best’ color scale.”

• “Different analyses and representations allow us to search for different components, discover different features, and analyze data in a variety of unique ways.”