Gender Stereotypes

Furthermore, in my design, the figure which presents women is wearing a dress and the graphic is using red color. “To our 21st century ears, all this men in pink stuff may sound a bit blushy. It's so deeply entrenched in us and our culture. We think of pink as such a girlish color, but it's really a post-World War II phenomenon (Stemberg, 2014).” Actually, red and blue is the common contrast colors to stand for two genders, because warm hue can mostly represent female, which is feminine, romantic, etc. And cold hue represent male as well, which is strong, masculine, etc. “Contrast and analogy are the principles that define color design. Contrasting colors are different, analogous colors are similar. Contrast draws attention, analogy groups

To compare the first and the second figure, the color of figure 2 is more messy and too sharp, readers may feel dizzy when they read this visualization for a long time. According to Anthony C. Robinson’s statement, “rainbow color schemes are ‘almost always the wrong choice’ (Li, 2013). “People who are colorblind have difficulties detecting colors, particularly red and green. Even though most people aren’t colorblind, rainbow color schemes can be confusing because there’s no clear ‘greater than’ or ‘less than’ logic to ordering the colors (Li, 2013).” Using and matching the wrong colors in a visualization will make readers confused and feel distractive. This is why the analogy is changed to same color tone but light to dark, which is more distinctive. After changing the color, the presentation form is not good enough. The position of label goes to the inaccurate part of the body that people cannot understand the graphic immediately. Moreover, the words in the graphics are too small, readers may be difficult to read those words, it will confuse them. So after the failed in figure 2 and 3, figure 1 is the finally version of the visualization of the top ten

It usually used in different industrial, educational, retail and business settings to show comparisons between values (Gilani). Also, it is the most popular data display method nowadays. In the fourth figure, it is a bar chart reveals the top ten mortality rate of cancers in both genders. Using a bar chart to show the data can reveal the information intelligibly. The two bar charts represent the mortality rate of men and women. It also uses different colors, instead of words, to convey the message, which make it to be catchy and recognizable. It will be easier for the readers to differentiate it before they read the