Track 02 · Visualization principles
Principles knowledge check
Six questions on chart choice, colour, and hierarchy.
- You want to compare revenue across 8 products. Best chart?
- 3D pie chart
- Sorted horizontal bar chart
- Line chart
- Scatter plot
- How many accent colours should a typical chart use?
- One — the rest neutral grey
- One per category
- As many as look lively
- None, all grey
- Monthly revenue for two years. Best chart?
- Bar chart
- Pie chart
- Line chart
- Table
- Visual hierarchy is mainly created by…
- Borders and boxes
- Size, weight, and contrast
- More colours
- Animation
- A pie chart is acceptable when…
- You have 9 near-equal slices
- You have 2–4 parts of one whole
- You want to rank items
- You are showing a trend
- Whitespace in a dashboard is…
- Wasted space to fill
- A grouping and focus tool
- Only for print
- A sign of missing data