. If you see an interesting visualisation but don’t have much time to look at it, check out five things to quickly help you make sense of it: title; axes & scales; key; data source; data. Not all visualisations have all these features; that doesn’t make them ‘bad’ visualisations. Some visualisations may not need them (for example, a world map doesn’t have a scale). Sometimes the features are present but not obvious – you may need to click on an icon to reveal them. But it may also be that without these features, a visualisation is more difficult to understand. Test yourself at the end!
如果你看到一个有趣的可视化图表,想快速的把它看懂,那么你只需关注这五个地方就可以了:1)标题;2)轴和刻度尺;3)图例;4)数据来源;5)数据本身。并不是所有的可视化图表都具备有这5个要素,这也是允许的,因为有些可能不需要刻度尺(例如一个世界地图就没有刻度尺),有时候有些要素并不明显,你可能需要点击一个图标才能显示出来。但可以肯定的是,如果没有这些要素,可视化图表就不容易被理解。
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