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Final Quiz
Q1. Which of the following visualization types would be best for accessing iconic memory? A table that uses percentages instead of values. Any network diagram. A simple bar graph that contrasts measure of interest with other similar measures. A map of China that highlights internet access penetration by showing each municipality and village.
Answer: A simple bar graph that contrasts measure of interest with other similar measures.
Q2. True/False: If you appeal to a reader’s iconic memory, it will not be useful for appealing to a reader’s short or long-term memory. True False
Answer: False
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Q3. True/False: Eliminate all text to eliminate clutter. False True
Answer: False
Q4. Of the following, which would be best for reducing cognitive load on a 7 category bar graph? One color, no axis, but data labels. One color for each (7 colors) but no data labels or axis. One color, no axis and no data labels. Two colors with one identifying the interesting element but no text of anywhere.
Answer: One color, no axis, but data labels.
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Q5. A scatterplot that has two colors identifying categories of data is a good example of this type of Gestalt perception: Enclosure Closure Proximity Similarity
Q6. Suppose you want your audience to see how income per GDP for a set of countries has changed over the past 50 years so you do a line graph. What Gestalt principle are you applying here? Connection Similarity Closure Proximity
Answer: Connection
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Q7. True/False: It is always superior to use many colors than using shades of gray and one additional color. True False
Answer: False
Q8. Which of these would be a poor application of a strategic use of contrast? Using a bright blue for the important element but much lighter shade for other elements. Bolding text in a table. Using different colors for each category and highlighting the important element with black. One bright color contrasted with gray.
Answer: Using different colors for each category and highlighting the important element with black.
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Q9. Visualizing data in three dimensions with a bar chart is appropriate only in the following circumstance. Whenever you feel that the graph might look prettier or visually appealing. When data are expressed in such a way that visualizations must be done in three dimensions because graphing in two dimensions would be inappropriate. It’s something that everyone else in my company does. Always, because that’s the trend in visualization best practices.
Answer: When data are expressed in such a way that visualizations must be done in three dimensions because graphing in two dimensions would be inappropriate.
Q10. True/False: Eliminating clutter is more important than having a visual that is understandable because cluttered visuals have too much useless information. True False
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Q11. Providing a reference line with shading on one side allows to highlight a group of values in a visualization. Which Gestalt principle is this? Closure Proximity Symmetry Enclosure
Answer: Enclosure
Q12. Suppose you must include a table with numbers in a visualization to a large audience. What’s the one thing listed below that you should not do to it? Highlight the insight with one color and leave the others uncolored. Leave it uncolored. Put a contrasting color in each box. Make the values in the table large enough for people to read.
Answer: Put a contrasting color in each box.
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Q13. True/False: Sorting your data so that the values are in order is essential to any decluttering of visualizations. False True
Answer: True
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Q14. One of your audience members in a small committee is color blind and you have decided to stick with only black and white in your visualizations. Which is the best way to provide a pre-attentive attribute in a scatterplot that has two categories? Use circles and fill one category and leave the other unfilled. Change the intensity of one category by making it more gray and less black. Make one category bigger than the other. Make one category a square and one a triangle.
Answer: Use circles and fill one category and leave the other unfilled.
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