The list (for reference)


1.  Who | Who is your audience?  How expert will they be about the subject and/or display conventions?              

2.  Explore-Explain Is your goal to explore, document, or explain your data or ideas, or a combination of these?  

3. Feature recognition | Is feature and/or pattern recognition, a goal?

4. Predictions & Uncertainty | Are you making a comparison between data and/or predictions?             Is representing uncertainty a concern?   

•   yes, and I have quantitative information about ityes, and I have quantitative information about it

•   yes, but it value is not well-measured, or information is qualitative

5.  Dimensions [2] | What is the intrinsic number of dimensions (not necessarily spatial) in your data, and how many do you want to show at once?   


6.  Categories [AC3] & Clustering[4]  | Are there natural, or imposed, categories within the data?            
Are you interested in clustering?


7. Abstraction & Accuracy
Do you need to show all the data, or is summary or abstraction OK?             

•              allallallall

•              summary (statistical)

•              abstraction

How literally accurate does your visualization need to be?

•              to-scale

•              schematic

•              color-realistic

8.  Context & Scale |

                Can you, and do you want to, put the data into a standard frame of reference?

•              coordinate system

•              registration with other data (images)

                Is a single scale OK, or do you need more than one at once?            

9. Metadata | Do you need to display or link to non-quantitative metadata? (Consider figure captions, labels and other in-text explanations etc about the data/vis)

10.  Display modes | What display modes might be used in experiencing your display?  

•              many of the below

•              paper, B&W

•              paper, color

•              phone/tablet-size screen, color

•              laptop-size screen, color

•              large screen screen, color

•              viz wall, colorviz

•              moving (video)moving (video)moving (video)moving (video)

•              moving (changeable, interactive)moving (changeable, interactive)moving (changeable, interactive)moving (changeable, interactive)

•              2D

•              3D

•              stereostereostereostereo

 

Technical Considerations

Sources Are your data all in one file/source, or many | Formats  Are/is your data files/file in a standard format, and/or can they/it be put into one? | is your data files/file in a standard format, and/or can they/it be put into one? | is your data files/file in a standard format, and/or can they/it be put into one? | is your data files/file in a standard format, and/or can they/it be put into one? | is your data files/file in a standard format, and/or can they/it be put into one? | is your data files/file in a standard format, and/or can they/it be put into one? | is your data files/file in a standard format, and/or can they/it be put into one? | Custom Code Are you interested in a custom solution, which may mean writing new code, or are you seeking a more off-the-shelf and/or GUI-based solution? Is a combination OK?