Posts Tagged ‘ Comparability ’

Let’s not mix these polarized voters as the medians run away from one another

October 10, 2017
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Let’s not mix these polarized voters as the medians run away from one another

Long-time follower Daniel L. sent in a gem, by the Washington Post. This is a multi-part story about the polarization of American voters, nicely laid out, with superior analyses and some interesting graphics. Click here to see the entire article....

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Getting into the head of the chart designer

September 19, 2017
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Getting into the head of the chart designer

Kaiser Fung, creator of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, shows that maps are not the only way to deliver insights about geographical data.

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A long view of hurricanes

September 15, 2017
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A long view of hurricanes

Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, discusses a nice chart showing 30 years of hurricanes in the Atlantic.

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The salaries are attractive but the chart isn’t

August 29, 2017
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The salaries are attractive but the chart isn’t

Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, was impressed by the salaries but not by the visualization of engineering salaries in an IEEE journal.

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Speed demon quartered and shrunk

August 14, 2017
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Speed demon quartered and shrunk

Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, explains how Microsoft distorted and exaggerated the relative speed of its Edge browser relative to competition

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Wheel of fortune without prizes: the negative report about negativity

July 6, 2017
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Wheel of fortune without prizes: the negative report about negativity

Kaiser Fung, creator of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, re-makes a pair of pie charts that illustrate media coverage in Trump's first 100 days

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The less-is-more story, and its meta

June 27, 2017
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The less-is-more story, and its meta

Kaiser Fung, author of Junk Charts and founder of Principal Analytics Prep, uses a graphic by Charles Schwab to illustrate the virtue of less is more in data visualization

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Some like it packed, some like it piled, and some like it wrapped

June 16, 2017
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Some like it packed, some like it piled, and some like it wrapped

Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep and Junk Charts, discusses chart innovations by Stephen Few and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland.

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Making people jump over hoops

May 30, 2017
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Making people jump over hoops

Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep and Junk Charts, comments on a WSJ chart about how banks pay their brokers

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Sorting out what’s meaningful and what’s not

April 24, 2017
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Sorting out what’s meaningful and what’s not

A few weeks ago, the New York Times Upshot team published a set of charts exploring the relationship between school quality, home prices and commute times in different regions of the country. The following is the chart for the New...

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