Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, finds five reasons to love the Washington Post's data journalism piece about the "Happy 700" rule for selecting a host city for the Winter Olympics
Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, finds five reasons to love the Washington Post's data journalism piece about the "Happy 700" rule for selecting a host city for the Winter Olympics
Kaiser Fung, of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, finds much to admire about this chart showing tremendous progress in social wellbeing across the globe over the last few decades.
Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, explains why simple analysis should be illustrated using simple graphics.
Kaiser Fung, founder of JunkCharts and Principal Analytics Prep, simplifies and clarifies a Washington Post pie chart about friends and party affiliation.
If you type "two Americas map" into Google image search, you get the following top results: Designers overwhelmingly pick the choropleth map as the way to depitct the two nations. Now, look at these maps from the New York Times...
There were some very nice graphics work published during the last few days of the U.S. presidential election. Let me tell you why I like the following four charts. FiveThirtyEight's snake chart This chart definitely hits the Trifecta. It is...
Bar charts are over-used and over-rated. Just casually, I found this example at US News: Are you comparing bar widths? Or the printed data? Here is a dot plot:
Surveys generate a lot of data. And, if you have used a survey vendor, you know they generate a ton of charts. I was in Germany to attend the Data Meets Viz workshop organized by Antony Unwin. Paul and Sascha...
First, I saw Alberto tweet his design for the Wall Street Journal (below is the English version): The yellow space is the size of the smallest "livable" apartment in Hong Kong, known as the "mosquito" apartment. Livability is defined by...
Thanks to reader Charles Chris P., I was able to get the police staffing data to play around with. Recall from the previous post that the Washington Post made the following scatter plot, comparing the proportion of whites among police...
