The GNC Visualization that I chose was the Gender of Illustrators. The type of visualization that appears is a pie chart. The pie chart contains a legend with the color red representing the information “Female,” the color blue representing the information “Male,” the color green representing the information “Other,” and the color grey as the information “Unknown.” The unusual thing about that is the pie graph only contains the colors red and blue, showing the data provided contains only the genders female and male for the illustrators and nothing else. I find it interesting that they would include a legend containing more information than the actual pie chart. If the pie chart is a visualization of the data received, and there were no “other” or “unknown” genders in the data and pie chart, why include it in the legend (GNC Visualizations)?
Regarding using the pie chart to visualize data, “the pie chart suggests that each entry is part of a whole,” which is true as the “whole” is the gender of illustrators. The percentages of the whole are one of the elements that are clearly visible. Elements are a component of visualization that showcases value against the axis. “In a pie chart, the percentage is read in relation to an axis—this is the circumference, which forms the 100% boundary of the whole.” The percentages are shown on the colors as the blue takes a huge section of the pie chart, showcasing males as “82%” of the illustrators. Females were listed as “18%” in the small section of the pie chart (The Digital Humanities Coursebook).
The information I would like to know not provided by the pie chart is how many illustrators were there. The 100% of the illustrators could mean anything between 5 illustrators or 100 illustrators.
Here is the link to the GNC Visualization that I was looking at:
https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/graphic-literature/gncorpus/charts/genderIllustrator.php