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Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
Fig. 1 | Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

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From: More of what? Dissociating effects of conceptual and numeric mappings on interpreting colormap data visualizations

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Example colormaps representing A congruent and B incongruent domain concepts. A Colormap of the Universal Health Coverage Index featuring a dark-more encoding (darker colors encode larger index values, which correspond to more coverage). Figure from Ortiz-Ospina and Roser (2017). B Two colormaps representing country ranks based on the Economic Complexity Index. In B, left (original figure), darker colors encode for more complexity (lower ranks, which are smaller numbers). In B, right, the color scale has been inverted, such that darker colors encode for less complexity (higher ranks, which are larger numbers). Figures adapted from Ortiz-Ospina and Beltekian (2018); Simoes and Hidalgo (2011)

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