Untamed "wall of numbers"
Take a close look at the following numbers and consider which approach is best to achieve your goal.
How long did it take to arrive at a conclusive result?
And how much effort was required? - Quite a bit!
Wouldn't it be easier if there were a small visual aid?
Something like this:
Easier to understand
This clearly speeds up the process of finding the result.
The mental energy required? - Significantly lower!
But of course, it can be even easier.
Clearly, this is easiest to understand
More visual aid means even less effort:
CLEARLY MUCH BETTER!
That's exactly what it's about: visual representation simplifies dealing with columns of numbers by a very high factor. Visually presented and prepared data are much easier and faster to grasp and understand.
Let's compare again
Rather confusing
With slight visual aid
Intelligently and efficiently visualized!
This is exactly how we understand the role of visual representation in analyzing complex quantitative data: as a central gateway to complex data that saves energy and enables us to make more accurate and precise statements.
Significantly added value
But the right visualization not only provides faster and better information, but it may also provide significantly more! useful information.
Take a closer look:
Here, we not only get the desired result for the number 9 at a glance, but we also gain important insights into all numbers from the sample at once. Overall, this represents at least a nine-fold (!) gain in information in this case - in a fraction of the time!
This is exactly the role of visual representation in analyzing complex quantitative data.