North Carolina A&T State University

Du Bois Wrapped Bar Chart: Visualizing Categorical Data with Disproportionate Values

We propose a visualization technique, Du Bois wrapped bar chart, inspired by work of W.E.B Du Bois. Du Bois wrapped bar charts enable better large-to-small bar comparison by wrapping large bars over a certain threshold. We first present two crowdsourcing experiments comparing wrapped and standard bar charts to evaluat…