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@inproceedings{Mylvarapu2019, title={Ranked-List Visualization: A Graphical Perception Study}, author={Pranathi Mylavarapu and Mehmet Adil Yalcin and Xan Gregg and Niklas Elmqvist}, url={http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~elm/projects/ranked-list/ranked-list.pdf}, year={2019}, date={2019-05-01}, booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}, journal={Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}, pages={192:1--192:12}, publisher={ACM}, address={New York, NY, USA}, abstract={Visualization of ranked lists is a common occurrence, but many in-the-wild solutions fly in the face of vision science and visualization wisdom. For example, treemaps and bubble charts are commonly used for this purpose, despite the fact that the data is not hierarchical and that length is easier to perceive than area. Furthermore, several new visual representations have recently been suggested in this area, including wrapped bars, packed bars, piled bars, and Zvinca plots. To quantify the differences and trade-offs for these ranked-list visualizations, we here report on a crowdsourced graphical perception study involving six such visual representations, including the ubiquitous scrolled barchart, in three tasks: ranking (assessing a single item), comparison (two items), and average (assessing global distribution). Results show that wrapped bars may be the best choice for visualizing ranked lists, and that treemaps are surprisingly accurate despite the use of area rather than length to represent value.}, keywords={}, }