Analytics for the Internet of Things (IoT)

The impact of using a single color to communicate importance

In order to reiterate how powerful color (or shades of gray if only grayscale is available) can be, we will look at an example. In the following image, look through the numbers and count how many 6s you see. What was your count? How long did it take?

A random set of numbers. Count the number of times 6 is shown.

Now, let's take the same image and put the important information (the 6s) in the foreground using color and the less important information (the other numbers) in the background by lightening to a shade of gray.

Looking at the changed image, how many 6s do you count? How long ...