Arran Zeyu Wang

Redundant is Not Redundant: Automating Efficient Categorical Palettes Design Unifying Color & Shape Encodings with CatPAW

Colors and shapes are commonly used to encode categories in multi-class scatterplots. Designers often combine the two channels to create redundant encodings, aiming to enhance class distinctions. However, evidence for the effectiveness of redundancy remains conflicted, and guidelines for constructing effective combina…