Deighton: Color saturation beats red-green coding for displaying differences in dashboards
Anthony Deighton · Anthony Deighton, Qlik: Top 10 Requirements For Visual Analytics (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Sep 14, 2015 · at 18:00
Anthony Deighton, CTO at Qlik, explains visual analytics design choices during a live presentation at DataDrivenNYC.
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“Ah, instead we use, ah, color saturation as a mechanism of showing difference, because it turns out that color saturation is A much better example, much better way of seeing difference.”
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