How Humans See Data - John Rauser - Velocity Amsterdam 2016

John Rauser's Velocity Amsterdam 2016 talk on how human vision reads graphs, built on William Cleveland's research into graphical perception. It explains which visual encodings people judge accurately and how that should shape the charts you make.

HN people recommend it as a coherent framework for making better graphs, grounded in Cleveland's research on perception.

“I wrote a talk entitled How Humans See Data that puts several of these ideas, among others, into a coherent framework”