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Tversky, Barbara, 163
U
Understanding Comics (McCloud), 160
Unflattening (Sousanis), 58
Unicode, 30
U.S. Census population data, 32–33
V
Valéry, Paul, 58, 79, 141
van der Leck, Bart, 148
van Schooten, Frans, 60
Vertical dimension bar charts and, 73–74, 73
data exploration and, 109
meaning and, 68–69, 68, 69
Violin plots, 101
Visual design. See also Graphic design austerity in, 154
creating effortless experiences for viewer in, 44
emotional design and, 151–152, 153, 155–156
perception of numbers and, 46
perceptual effects and, 87
readability of data in tables and, 31
relationships between centers and wholes in, 154–155, 155
roughness preference in, 153–154, 153
rules and conventions in, 42, 43
spacing in, 31
spatial biases in, 69
texture in, 154
trade-offs in, 42–43
trust and, 171–174
Visual cognition, color categories in, 41, 82, 83, 88, 147
Visualization, 9, 10, 42 creating effortless experiences for viewer in, 44
mind's eye in, 42
reading using, 41–42
Visual metaphors graphical display and, 43
importance related to size in, 43–44
meaning conveyed by, 68
power relationships shown with, 64
shared common set of, 43
similarity and physical closeness in, 44
visualizing data using, 19, 58, 68
Visual world, 57–66 children and, 43
common set of visual metaphors in, 43
conveying information within, 68
correlation between body's physical experience
and perception in, 44
decoding (interpreting) data in, 43, 44
encoding data for, 42–44
importance related to size in, 43–44
maps as, 61
mental cinema and, 42
mind's eye and, 42
proportion and, 44
similarity related to physical closeness in, 44
spatial diagrams in, 58–61
stimulus strength and perception in, 42–43, 42
Voltaire, 39, 111
W
Wagner, Richard, 5, 132
Wainer, Howard, 14, 29, 31, 31, 43, 74, 91, 104, 106, 120, 149, 154, 189, 190, 205
Waismann, Friedrich, 117
Walton, Tony, 152
Ware, Colin, 90, 130, 145, 147, 149, 186
Washington, Booker T., 173
Wheat, symbolism of, 24
When We Are No More (Rumsey), 21
Wilson, E.O., 37
Wong, Dona, 50, 71
X Y Z
x, in mathematics, 61
“Young Earth” creationism, 170
Zander, Benjamin, 5, 205
Zander, Rosamund Stone, 5, 205
Zero baseline in charts with, 71, 73
distance-number metaphor and, 49–50
length measurements and, 48
object-number metaphor in, 46
Zulu language, 44
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