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...
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...
Reader Orjan L. sent in this Swedish delight: It's on the last page of this report, and I'm told it's about the number of weapons seized by Swedish customs each year. *** On p. 8, I found a hockey-stick chart:...
Joe D., a long time reader, points us to a few blogs that have been active creating redesigns of charts, similar to how we do it here. First up, here are some examples from Storytelling With Data (link). This example...
Abhinav takes us to this chart: Only in politics. *** A co-worker reminds me of this gem by Fox News a few years back:
On Friday, I'm attending and speaking at the Leaders in Software and Art Conference, organized by Isabel Draves. LISA is an amazing gathering of artists interested in technology and software. For example, there is a panel on 3D printing and...
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...
I have a standard code for ggplot2 which I use to make line graphs, scatter plots, and histograms. For lines or scatters: p<- ggplot(x, aes(x=Year, y=Rank, colour=Uni, group=Uni)) #colour lines by variable Uni #group Uni labelled variables in the same line Then: p + #you get an error if not for this step geom_line(size=1.2) + […]
New York/Tri-State residents: Meet me at NYU Bookstore tonight, 6-7:30 pm. (link) *** When I wrote about the graphic showing the vote distribution around Syria in the Congress a few posts ago (link), readers offered opinions about what's a better...
Reader Andrew C. was unhappy about the following stacked bar chart, published by Teach for America, touting its diversity. (link) The lightning symbol that splits apart the Caucasian bar is a harbinger of trouble. For the designer deployed seven different...
Sometimes I wonder if I should just become a chart doctor. Andrew recently wrote that journals should have graphical editors. Businesses also need those, judging from this submission through Twitter (@francesdonald). Link is here. You don't know whether to laugh...
