At the conference in Bavaria, Jay Emerson asked participants to provide comments on the data visualization of the 2014 Environmental Performance Index (link). We looked at the country profiles in particular. Here is one for Singapore: The main object of...
Alberto Cairo, Stephen McDaniel and I were asked about our "favorite" data visualization at the Qlik Conference this week. Stephen wrote up our answers here.
A graphic illustrating how Americans spend their time is a perfect foil to make the important case that the reader's time is a scarce resource. I wrote about this at the ASA forum in 2011 (link). In the same WSJ...
Reader and tipster Chris P. found this "death spiral" chart dizzying (link). It's one of those charts that has conceptual appeal but does not do the data justice. As the name implies, the designer has a strong message, that the...
In New York, there are many restaurants that serve mediocre food but which people go in to order to be seen. Here is the graphical equivalent, courtesy of Scientific American (link): This is an attractive chart, but from which one...
The Giants QB Eli Manning is in the news for the wrong reason this season. His hometown paper, the New York Times, looked the other way, focusing on one metric that he still excels at, which is longevity. This is...
Kevin Drum shows the following graphic (link) to illustrate where the House stood on authorizing force in Syria. What interests me is whether the semi-circle concept adds to the chart. It evokes the physical appearance of a chamber, presumably where...
On Twitter, Andy C. (@AnkoNako) asked me to look at this pretty creation at NFL.com (link). There is a reason why you don't read much about spider charts (web charts, radar charts, etc.) here. While this chart is beautifully constructed,...
A double post today. In the previous post, I talked about NFL.com's visualization of football player statistics. In this post, I offer a few different views of the same data. *** The first is a dot plot arranged in small...
Here's a chart in the November edition of Bloomberg Markets: Curiosities include: how they split up the lamb chop, why an onion is chosen to represent "fresh vegetables/melons"? The chart contains some strange data that make readers feel nervous. For...
