Week 8 part B: Feeling Lost When Reading Quantitative Results in Research Papers? Visualization for Presenting Results

Critique Examples to Improve Results Presentation to Improve Clarity for Others

Data and How it is Displayed - Does it Matter?

(Choose at least --one-- to read, reflect in your research notebook on the guidelines for presenting data visually)

Onwuegbuzie, A. J., & Dickinson, W. B. (2008). Mixed methods analysis and information visualization: graphical display for effective communication of research results. Qualitative report, 13(2), 204-225.
Kelleher, C., & Wagener, T. (2011). Ten guidelines for effective data visualization in scientific publications. Environmental Modelling & Software, 26(6), 822-827.
Borkin, M. A., Vo, A. A., Bylinskii, Z., Isola, P., Sunkavalli, S., Oliva, A., & Pfister, H. (2013). What makes a visualization memorable?. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 19(12), 2306-2315.
Hudson, T. (2015). Presenting quantitative data visually. In Advancing quantitative methods in second language research (pp. 78-105). Routledge.

Examples of visually reporting quantitative results:

(Choose-- one-- from this group and critique their results section presentation in your research notebook with a primary focus on the visual figures, tables, and charts in the results section; reflect on communication, understandability, and transparency; )

(Compare and contrast to --one-- of the papers you read in the prior “Week 6: A Look at Examples of Empirical Human Subject Studies” (links reposted below-- reflect on ...What was done better/worse, focused on visual presentation of results, in your chosen paper from this week?)

**optional tidbits**

Great books on visualizing information by Edward Tufte

(choose an interesting chapter and read through at least one for discussion)

Alternative methods to visualize results? Interactive Graphics:

(try out one of these tools)

A reposting of papers from week 6 (choose one to compare to ‘examples of visually reporting quantitative results’ from above):