The Subtleties of Color A Series by Robert Simmon earthobservatory.nasa.gov The use of color to display data is a solved problem, right? Just pick a palette from a drop-down menu (probably either a grayscale ramp or a rainbow), set start and end points, press “apply,” and you’re done. Although we all know it’s not that simple, that’s often how colors are chosen in the real world. As a result, many visualizations fail to represent the underlying data as well as they could. colorvisualizationdata
Thinking is a matter of degree Perhaps “thinking” is not a yes/no thing, but maybe it is a matter of degree. Richard Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn I Am a Strange Loop cognition