{"id":323,"date":"2017-02-06T13:53:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T13:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2024-05-08T17:09:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:09:31","slug":"data-visualization-tips-for-enterprise-architects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/data-visualization-tips-for-enterprise-architects\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Color To Communicate Clearly: Data Visualization Tips For Enterprise Architects"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a grey winter here in Northern Virginia. Not too cold – just grey. It’s been either rain or clouds pretty much since the start of 2017. Don’t believe me? think I’m just being depressing? Take a look at this daily weather record for Washington, DC for January 2017 –<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Using<\/p>\n

See?<\/p>\n

When I lived in Massachusetts, I used to look outside and the grey weather matched most people’s style choices – blacks, greys, browns – it gets a little tiring. So we know we need colors to brighten things up.<\/p>\n

\"Using<\/p>\n

Too much?<\/em><\/p>\n

If you’ve been through our training courses, you’ll know that we at\u00a0Avolution<\/a>\u00a0talk about practicing just enough architecture as a fundamental guiding principle – well try the same idea for color when presenting information in\u00a0ABACUS<\/a>\u00a0– just enough color.<\/p>\n

\"Using<\/p>\n

Not bad!<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly color is very important, but how do we use it more effectively? There are a couple of key principles:<\/p>\n

Grouping<\/strong>\u00a0is accomplished by similar hues – everyone in the picture is wearing some bluish-green, but notice the males are using green while the females a kind of aqua?<\/p>\n

Attention\u00a0<\/strong>is captivated by colors with higher brightness or chroma – the females in the picture look great and don’t need to be called out, it’s the men that need to be highlighted in the picture and so they are wearing a brighter shade of green.<\/p>\n

Differences\u00a0<\/strong>are shown with contrasting hues – you can use your color wheel for this one: purple v yellow, red v green, blue v orange.<\/p>\n

Just because you can, in ABACUS you can get carried away with coloring every column in a catalog and adding five color annotations or heat maps to a single diagram. It’s not enough to follow the principles above, we need to be restrained in our use of color as well. So here’s a couple of additional rules of thumb:<\/p>\n

Catalogs\u00a0<\/strong>should have up to three columns colored, only one should be used for calling out differences<\/p>\n

Diagrams\u00a0<\/strong>should use color to represent up to three dimensions (e.g. component type, and two property values)<\/p>\n

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It’s been a grey winter here in Northern Virginia. Not too cold – just grey. It’s been either rain or clouds pretty much since the start of 2017. Don’t believe me? think I’m just being depressing? Take a look at this daily weather record for Washington, DC for January 2017 – See? 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