Retinal Variables

The most fundamental choice in any data visualization project is how your real-world values will be translated into marks on the page or screen. In this exercise we’ll be encoding an extremely simple data set repeatedly in order to exhaustively catalog the different ways a handful of numbers can
The most fundamental choice in any data visualization project is how your real-world values will be translated into marks on the page or screen. In this exercise we’ll be encoding an extremely simple data set repeatedly in order to exhaustively catalog the different ways a handful of numbers can be represented. Refer to Jacques Bertin’s cheat sheet from The Semiology of Graphics for all the ways quantitative and qualitative can be encoded visually: Retinal variables (clockwise from top): Size

The 8 visual variables defined by Bertin [2]

Visual Variables

Visual Encoding - Apptio

Proximity – Graph workflow

Retinal Variables - Info Visualization

5 Showing location of activities by retinal variables. In the

Retinal Variables - Info Visualization

Examples of Planar and Retinal Variable Use

Information visualization: interaction

Visual Encoding - Apptio

Examples of Planar and Retinal Variable Use

PDF) Integrating Retinal Variables into Graph Visualizing

The “Physics” of Notations: Toward a Scientific Basis for

Retinal Variables for Visual Encoding – The Art of Data

Examples of Planar and Retinal Variable Use