Visualizing For The Color Blind

Aug 29, 2013

Data Visualization Color Blind ImageIn the world of data visualization and dashboards colors  form an integral part of telling the data story effectively. However,  not everyone has the ability to to see every color equally.  The article from Dashboard Insights talks about creating dashboards and data visualizations for the color blind.

Color blindness is a color vision deficiency which affects roughly 8% of the North American male population and 0.5% of the female population. So when designing data visualizations and dashboards, it’s important to keep this group of people in mind to make sure they are seeing the same results as everyone else.

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Source: Dashboard Insights

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