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Exploring the Types of Messages that Pie Charts Convey in Popular Media

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Diagrams 2016)

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In popular media, information graphics (pie charts, bar charts, line graphs) are frequently used to convey high-level intended messages. This paper focuses on the pie chart graphic type. We have collected a corpus of pie chart information graphics found in popular media, and for each chart, a team of annotators recognized its intended message. In this paper, we report on the types of intended messages that the team of annotators recognized and their inter-annotator agreement. We also briefly survey some of the communicative signals that graphic designers used which helped the annotators recognize these messages.

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Notes

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    The corpus of pie charts is available at: http://www.cs.wcupa.edu/rburns/piecharts.

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    Two annotations were only counted as matching if they had: (1) the same message category and (2) the same instantiation. For example, the two messages SingleSlice(Landfills) and SingleSlice(Animal digestion) would not be a match because their instantiations are not identical.

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    In the original graphic, Bounty is colored yellow, Troops is orange, and the unlabeled slice is gray.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, West Chester University, West Chester, PA, 19383, USA

    Richard Burns, Eric Balawejder & Wiktoria Domanowska

  2. Department of Computer Science, Millersville University, Millserville, PA, 17551, USA

    Stephanie Elzer Schwartz

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716, USA

    Sandra Carberry

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  1. The University of Cambridge , Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Mateja Jamnik

  2. The University of Tokyo , Tokyo, Japan

    Yuri Uesaka

  3. Millersville University , Millersville, Pennsylvania, USA

    Stephanie Elzer Schwartz

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Burns, R., Balawejder, E., Domanowska, W., Schwartz, S.E., Carberry, S. (2016). Exploring the Types of Messages that Pie Charts Convey in Popular Media. In: Jamnik, M., Uesaka, Y., Elzer Schwartz, S. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9781. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42333-3_22

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