When reading a visualization, is what we see really what we get? There are a lot of ways that visualizations can mislead us, such that they appear to show us something interesting that disappears on closer inspection. Such visualization mirages can lead us to see patterns or draw conclusions that don’t exist in our data. We analyze these quarrelsome entities and provide a testing strategy for dispelling them.

Helen Kara wrote a book about creative methods, and continues to explore new approaches. In this post she shares some examples with MethodSpace readers.

I coined the term "enacted" to describe emerging types of creative methods. Enacted approaches involve multiple interactions and a deep degree of collaboration that 
involves researcher(s) and 
one or more participants.

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