Data Visualization
Visualizations can offload work to our perceptual systems to make patterns in data more accessible. But people can also misinterpret visualizations.
Decision Making
You’d hope that people would interpret data objectively, but the process is likely riddled with biases.
Perception & Cognition
Your visual system can crunch vast arrays of numbers at a glance, providing the rest of your brain with critical values, statistics, and patterns needed to make decisions about your data. What do we know about the underlying mechanisms?