Abstract
In popular media, information graphics (pie charts, bar charts, line graphs) are frequently used to convey high-level intended messages. This paper focuses on the pie chart graphic type. We have collected a corpus of pie chart information graphics found in popular media, and for each chart, a team of annotators recognized its intended message. In this paper, we report on the types of intended messages that the team of annotators recognized and their inter-annotator agreement. We also briefly survey some of the communicative signals that graphic designers used which helped the annotators recognize these messages.
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The corpus of pie charts is available at: http://www.cs.wcupa.edu/rburns/piecharts.
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Two annotations were only counted as matching if they had: (1) the same message category and (2) the same instantiation. For example, the two messages SingleSlice(Landfills) and SingleSlice(Animal digestion) would not be a match because their instantiations are not identical.
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In the original graphic, Bounty is colored yellow, Troops is orange, and the unlabeled slice is gray.
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Burns, R., Balawejder, E., Domanowska, W., Schwartz, S.E., Carberry, S. (2016). Exploring the Types of Messages that Pie Charts Convey in Popular Media. In: Jamnik, M., Uesaka, Y., Elzer Schwartz, S. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9781. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42333-3_22
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