Rainbow color scheme is popularly used across the board in many scientific disciplines for
visualizing data, yet heavily debated in visualization literature. In this paper, we first report …

Selecting appropriate visual encodings is critical to designing effective visualization
recommendation systems, yet few findings from graphical perception are typically applied …

Guidelines for color use in quantitative visualizations have strongly discouraged the use of
rainbow colormaps, arguing instead for smooth designs that do not induce visual …

Mobile map applications are increasingly used in various aspects of our lives, leading to an
increase in different map use situations and, therefore, map use contexts. Several empirical …

IJGI | Free Full-Text | Heat Maps: Perfect Maps for Quick Reading? Comparing Usability of Heat
Maps with Different Levels of Generalization Next Article in Journal Impact of Digital and …

Visualization linting is a proven effective tool in assisting users to follow established
visualization guidelines. Despite its success, visualization linting for choropleth maps, one of …

Because crafting attractive and effective colors from scratch is a high-effort and time-
consuming process in map and visualization design, transferring color from an inspiration …

Color quality evaluation is key to judging map quality, which can improve data visualization
and communication. However, most existing methods for evaluating map colors are tedious …

Hundreds of millions of people suffer from color vision deficiency, leading to confusion in the
perception of maps. Barrier-free colors can reduce confusion and improve the readability of …

Maps represent powerful tools to show the spatial variation of a variable in a straightforward
manner. A crucial aspect in map rendering for its interpretation by users is the gamut of …