{"id":191,"date":"2014-10-28T19:24:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T18:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/decisive-workshop.dbvis.de\/?page_id=191"},"modified":"2014-10-28T19:27:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T18:27:30","slug":"data-are-secular-not-sacred","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/decisive-workshop.dbvis.de\/?page_id=191","title":{"rendered":"Data Are Secular, Not Sacred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Michael Correll\u00a0and\u00a0Michael Gleicher<\/strong>,\u00a0University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In this paper we argue that understanding is more important than data. The human perceptual and cognitive systems have their own complexities which influence how a visualization is processed that may have very little to do with what a viewer sees on a screen. Therefore, the best way to design for understanding may not be to present the most data, or to present the data clearly, or even present the data accurately; as designers we must be willing to ignore, obscure, and distort data in the service of understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Correll\u00a0and\u00a0Michael Gleicher,\u00a0University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA In this paper we argue that understanding is more important than data. The human perceptual and cognitive systems have their own complexities which influence how a visualization is processed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":172,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisive-workshop.dbvis.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisive-workshop.dbvis.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisive-workshop.dbvis.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisive-workshop.dbvis.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisive-workshop.dbvis.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/decisive-workshop.dbvis.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/decisive-workshop.dbvis.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191\/revisions\/192"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decisive-workshop.dbvis.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decisive-workshop.dbvis.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}