Understanding Data Visualisations by Andy Kirk.
From the webpage:
Regular readers will be somewhat aware of my involvement in a research project called ‘Seeing Data’, a 15 month study funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by Professor Helen Kennedy from the University of Sheffield.
The aim of ‘Seeing Data’ was to further our understanding about how people make sense of data visualisations. Through learning about the ways in which people engage with data visualisations our aim was to provide some key resources for the general public, to help them develop the skills they need to interact with visualisations, and also for visualisation designers/producers, to help them understand what matters to the people who view and engage with their visualisations.
We are now concluding our findings and beginning our dissemination of a range of outputs to fulfil our aims.
This looks very promising! Each section leads to a fuller presentation with an opportunity to test yourself at the end of each section.
Will results on visualization in the UK will hold true for subjects in other locations? If there are differences, what are they and how are those variances understood?
Looking forward to more details on the project!
I first saw this in a tweet by Amanda Hobbs.