An interesting visualization tool presented this week at IEEE InfoViz adds another datapoint for the “Death to the Rainbow Colormap” club and backs it up with an impressive increase in accuracy from 39% to 91%.
“Our goal was to design a visual representation of the data that was as accurate and efficient for patient diagnosis as possible,” says lead author Michelle Borkin, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). “What we found is that the prettiest, most popular visualization is not always the most effective.”
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