perception
Cleveland-McGill hierarchy
also: elementary perceptual tasksRanking of encodings by reading accuracy with position first.
Classification
- perception
- the name evokes: eponym
Sources (7)
17 occurrences in the corpus
- Cleveland & McGill, Graphical Perception, JASA, 1984↗
- Computational statistics in data science
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Gr...
- The functional art: an introduction to information graphics and visualization
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- Visual strategies for biological data
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/cleveland-hierarchy.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. Cleveland-McGill hierarchy. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/cleveland-hierarchy.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-cleveland-hierarchy,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {Cleveland-McGill hierarchy},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/cleveland-hierarchy.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-12. Images last changed on 2026-11-12. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.