The picture just shows the top items, but I presume your final visualization would include all items. Each “row” is an item. If it shows up multiple times, that’s because it was considered to be more than 50% within the category (or some rule you will come up with).<\/p>\n
You could show items that fell further outside that threshold, but only show them dimly. Or show all items with their transparency set to the percentage they were within the category. (if you do that, still show the physical placement of the item in relation to the category, as that is easier for us humans to pull data from.)<\/p>\n
An important indicator of success for the categories would be if the top priority\/value items all fit snugly into one (or more) categories. It might be ok if lower value items didn’t fit the categories as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Someone on an IA mailing list I’m on was asking a visualization question. They wrote: I’m planning a project where participants will grade example items according to how well they fit their idea of what a certain category is. The grading will be on a 1-10 scale, similar to the (in)famous hot-or-not grading system. 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