The visual system evolved and develops to process the scenes, faces, and objects of the natural world, but people adapt this powerful system to process data within an artificial world of visualizations. To extract patterns in data from these artificial displays, viewers appear to use at least three perceptual tools, including a tool that extracts global statistics, one that extracts shapes within the data, and one that produces sentence-like comparisons. A better understanding of the power, limits, and deployment of these tools would lead to better guidelines for designing effective data displays.

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查看和理解可视化数据的三种感知工具

视觉系统进化和发展为处理自然世界的场景、面部和物体，但人们采用这个强大的系统来处理可视化的人工世界中的数据。为了从这些人工显示中提取数据中的模式，观众似乎至少使用了三种感知工具，包括一种提取全局统计数据的工具，一种提取数据中的形状的工具，以及一种生成类似句子的比较的工具。更好地了解这些工具的功能、限制和部署，将为设计有效的数据显示提供更好的指导。