Lecture 09
Color
Required Reading
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Munzner, Chapter 10.1-10.3, 6.9 (Note: the textbook is available electronically through the UA Library for those on campus)
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Which color scale to use when visualizing data. Lisa Charlotte Muth, 2021 (All 4 parts).
See also: How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations.
Optional Reading
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Color Vision - Carlos Scheidegger (CSC 444 Fall 2019).
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Rainbows Revisited: Modeling Effective Colormap Design for Graphical Inference. Khairi Reda and Danielle Albers Szafir. IEEE TVCG 2021.
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Ware, Information Visualization, Chapter 4. Note that this book is free to access on campus (the above link will not work off campus).
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Color Use Guidelines for Mapping and Visualization. Cynthia A. Brewer. Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Graphics, American Statistical Association, Alexandria VA. pp. 55-60. 1999.
See also: Colorbrewer: Color Advice for Maps -
Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful. D. Borland and R. Taylor. Computer Graphics and Applications, 27(2), pp. 14-17, 2007.
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Color (listen) - Radiolab
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http://www.brucelindbloom.com Bruce Lindbloom. Useful color information, studies, and Files.
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Is Your Red The Same as My Red? (watch) - Vsauce.