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Foundations Color for Data Vis Benjamin Bach http://benjbach.me University of Edinburgh 2020 Outline What is color? Color in visualization Color Scales Sequential, diverging, categorical scales Rainbow color map Color blindness What is


  1. Foundations Color for Data Vis Benjamin Bach http://benjbach.me University of Edinburgh 2020

  2. Outline What is color? Color in visualization Color Scales Sequential, diverging, categorical scales Rainbow color map Color blindness

  3. What is Color?

  4. ~120 million rods 400-700nm ~6 million cones

  5. Color Models Subtractive Additive Models Models

  6. What is color?

  7. HSB Model: Hue, Saturation, Brightness Color = (Brightness/Lightness, Saturation, Hue)

  8. HSB Color Picker

  9. Color in Visualization

  10. Visual Variables

  11. http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/innovis/uploads/Publications/Publications/Carpendale_visual_variables.pdf

  12. Color Scales

  13. More examples of color scales (ColorBrewer)

  14. Colorbrewer.org

  15. Sequential Scales

  16. More examples of color scales (ColorBrewer)

  17. Sequential color scales Single hue: Multi hue: https://github.com/d3/d3-scale-chromatic

  18. Mapping color scales Linear Data value Non-linear Stepwise

  19. Median Median

  20. Median Median

  21. 10% 8 18

  22. 10%

  23. Diverging Scales

  24. More examples of color scales (ColorBrewer)

  25. Diverging color scale Multi hue:

  26. Categorical Scales

  27. More examples of color scales (ColorBrewer)

  28. I Want Hue

  29. Rainbow Color Maps

  30. More examples of color scales (ColorBrewer)

  31. http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/innovis/uploads/Publications/Publications/Carpendale_visual_variables.pdf

  32. Color Maps Rainbow: Diverging:

  33. Rainbow Colormap

  34. Rainbow Colormap

  35. Color (mis)use

  36. Lightness perception of rainbow color maps

  37. Rainbow colormap Pros: - Many different values - Compare similar values Cons: - Colors hardly orderable - Introduces sharp jumps in values - Hides overall patterns - Overemphasizes certain values - Is not black/white nor colorblind save!

  38. Linear Rainbow map

  39. Color Blindness

  40. Normal vison Deuteranopia Protanopia Tritanopia

  41. Protanopia Deuteranopia Tritanopia "If a submitted manuscript 8% happens to go to three male reviewers of Northern European descent, the 0.5% chance that at least one will be color blind is 22 percent ."

  42. www.color-blindness.com Normal Types of color blindness

  43. Colorblind safe palettes Colorbrewer.org: Diverging Sequential Categorical

  44. Redundant encoding

  45. Further applications in DataVis

  46. Meaning of colors across cultures

  47. Take home messages: ● Color = hue + lightness + saturation ● Chose a color scale that fits your data ● Avoid rainbow color palettes ● Test your color palettes for colorblindness ● Whatever increases accessibility for some fraction of the population, increases accessibilty overall.

  48. Further reading Wong, Bang. "Points of view: Color blindness." (2011): 441. ● Tamara Munzner: Visualization Analysis and Design, 2016; ● Chapter 10: Map Color and Other Channels https://www.color-blindness.com/types-of-color-blindness ● Colin Ware: Information Visualization—Perception for Design, ● 2012

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