Circular Part-to-Whole Charts Using the Area Visual Cue

Kosara, Robert

Circular Part-to-Whole Charts Using the Area Visual Cue

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2019

Authors

Kosara, Robert

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The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Studies of chart types can reveal unexplored design spaces, like the circular diagrams used in recent studies on pie charts. In this paper, we explore several variations of part-to-whole charts that use area to represent a fraction within a circle. We find one chart that performs very similarly to the pie chart, even though it is visually more complex. Centered shapes turn out to lead to much worse accuracy than any other stimuli, even the same shape when not centered. These first results point to the need for more systematic explorations of the design spaces around existing charts.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:evs.20191163
,
booktitle = {EuroVis 2019 - Short Papers
},
editor = {Johansson, Jimmy and Sadlo, Filip and Marai, G. Elisabeta
},
title = {{Circular Part-to-Whole Charts Using the Area Visual Cue
}},
author = {Kosara, Robert
},
year = {2019
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-090-1
},
DOI = {10.2312/evs.20191163
}
}