Striking a balance: Reader takeaways and preferences when integrating text and charts

C Stokes, V Setlur, B Cogley… - … on Visualization and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While visualizations are an effective way to represent insights about information, they rarely
stand alone. When designing a visualization, text is often added to provide additional …

Towards understanding how readers integrate charts and captions: A case study with line charts

DH Kim, V Setlur, M Agrawala - … of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Charts often contain visually prominent features that draw attention to aspects of the data
and include text captions that emphasize aspects of the data. Through a crowdsourced …

Kori: Interactive synthesis of text and charts in data documents

S Latif, Z Zhou, Y Kim, F Beck… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Charts go hand in hand with text to communicate complex data and are widely adopted in
news articles, online blogs, and academic papers. They provide graphical summaries of the …

Visual arrangements of bar charts influence comparisons in viewer takeaways

C Xiong, V Setlur, B Bach, E Koh, K Lin… - … on Visualization and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Well-designed data visualizations can lead to more powerful and intuitive processing by a
viewer. To help a viewer intuitively compare values to quickly generate key takeaways …

Charagraph: Interactive Generation of Charts for Realtime Annotation of Data-Rich Paragraphs

D Masson, S Malacria, G Casiez, D Vogel - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Documents often have paragraphs packed with numbers that are difficult to extract,
compare, and interpret. To help readers make sense of data in text, we introduce the …

Why shouldn't all charts be scatter plots? beyond precision-driven visualizations

E Bertini, M Correll, S Franconeri - 2020 IEEE Visualization …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A central tenet of information visualization research and practice is the notion of visual
variable effectiveness, or the perceptual precision at which values are decoded given visual …

How do viewers synthesize conflicting information from data visualizations?

P Mantri, H Subramonyam, AL Michal… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scientific knowledge develops through cumulative discoveries that build on, contradict,
contextualize, or correct prior findings. Scientists and journalists often communicate these …

Graphical overlays: Using layered elements to aid chart reading

N Kong, M Agrawala - IEEE transactions on visualization and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reading a visualization can involve a number of tasks such as extracting, comparing or
aggregating numerical values. Yet, most of the charts that are published in newspapers …

The state of the art in creating visualization corpora for automated chart analysis

C Chen, Z Liu - Computer Graphics Forum, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We present a state‐of‐the‐art report on visualization corpora in automated chart analysis
research. We survey 56 papers that created or used a visualization corpus as the input of …

Word-sized graphics for scientific texts

F Beck, D Weiskopf - IEEE transactions on visualization and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Generating visualizations at the size of a word creates dense information representations
often called sparklines. The integration of word-sized graphics into text could avoid …