Ranking Visualizations of Correlation Using Weber’s Law [pdf]

Didn&#x27;t expect to see my paper on the front pages of HN today :)<p>Lane (first author) here -- happy to take questions on behalf of the co-authors.<p>xangg already pointed out the nice followup from Matthew Kay and Jeff Heer (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;idl.cs.washington.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;2015-BeyondWebersLaw-InfoVis.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;idl.cs.washington.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;2015-BeyondWebersLaw-Inf...</a>). I&#x27;ll also direct folks to Ron Rensink&#x27;s original paper and his several followup papers targeting the underlying mechanisms of correlation perception (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.google.com&#x2F;citations?hl=en&amp;user=s_5xXxQXpU0C&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;sortby=pubdate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.google.com&#x2F;citations?hl=en&amp;user=s_5xXxQXpU0C...</a>)

One thing they did right with this study and paper was to make the data public, which allowed a better analysis to be published the following year. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;idl.cs.washington.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;2015-BeyondWebersLaw-InfoVis.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;idl.cs.washington.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;2015-BeyondWebersLaw-Inf...</a>