How NOT to Lie with Visualization
Summary
The rainbow draws contours the data lacks; match the colormap to the task and the data’s spatial frequency.
Luminance for fine detail, saturation for broad regions — advice that still holds.
- Resource: How NOT to Lie with Visualization
- By: Bernice Rogowitz & Lloyd Treinish
- Published: 1996
- Kind: writing (article)
- Level: intermediate
- Tags: color-scales, perception, data-viz, scientist, research