Posts Tagged ‘ sufficiency ’

The downside of discouraging pie charts

June 29, 2018
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The downside of discouraging pie charts

Kaiser Fung (Junkcharts, Principal Analytics Prep) gives a rare thumbs up to a pie chart; sometimes, the pie chart is better than the not-pie chart.

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The downside of discouraging pie charts

June 29, 2018
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The downside of discouraging pie charts

Kaiser Fung (Junkcharts, Principal Analytics Prep) gives a rare thumbs up to a pie chart; sometimes, the pie chart is better than the not-pie chart.

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Beauty is in the eyes of the fishes

April 23, 2018
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Beauty is in the eyes of the fishes

Kaiser Fung, creator of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, looks at an old chart from Germany from the 1960s about swimming pools.

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Beauty is in the eyes of the fishes

April 23, 2018
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Beauty is in the eyes of the fishes

Kaiser Fung, creator of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, looks at an old chart from Germany from the 1960s about swimming pools.

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When design goes awry

February 6, 2018
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When design goes awry

Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, fixes a set of charts about user satisfaction data of cell phone plans.

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The visual should be easier to read than your data

November 27, 2017
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The visual should be easier to read than your data

Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, explains why simple analysis should be illustrated using simple graphics.

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A pretty good chart ruined by some naive analysis

May 10, 2017
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A pretty good chart ruined by some naive analysis

The following chart showing wage gaps by gender among U.S. physicians was sent to me via Twitter: The original chart was published by the Stat News website (link). I am most curious about the source of the data. It apparently...

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Round things, square things

December 9, 2016
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Round things, square things

The following chart traces the flow of funds into AI (artificial intelligence) startups. I found it on this webpage and it is attributed to Financial Times. Here, I apply the self-sufficiency test to show that the semicircles are playing no...

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Counting the Olympic medals

August 15, 2016
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Counting the Olympic medals

Reader Conor H. sent in this daily medals table at the NBC website: He commented that the bars are not quite the right lengths. So even though China and Russia both won five total medals that day, the bar for...

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A Tufte fix for austerity

June 29, 2016
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A Tufte fix for austerity

Trish, who attended one of my recent data visualization workshops, submitted a link to the Illinois Atlas of Austerity. Shown on the right is one of the charts included in the presentation. This is an example of a chart that...

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