This is a continuation of my previous post on the map of the age of Brooklyn's buildings, in which I suggested that aggregating the data would bring out the geographical patterns better. For its map illustrating the pattern of insurance...
This is a continuation of my previous post on the map of the age of Brooklyn's buildings, in which I suggested that aggregating the data would bring out the geographical patterns better. For its map illustrating the pattern of insurance...
Joran E. sends us to the following chart via Twitter. Link to the original here. *** The top chart fails our self-sufficiency test. There are only eight numbers in the data. All eight numbers are printed onto the chart. If...
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...
A data graphic's first mission is communications. Looking cute should not come before. This one is a big fail by MIT Technology Review (link). What makes the designer want to tilt the reader's head? This chart is unreadable. It also...
Exactly one month ago, I entered the Bellagio casino to gamble at the roulette. It was actually a request from my daughter’s godfather (who happens to be a probabilist, actually). On a comment on a previous post, he suggested the following deal, In the Bellagio you put 10$ for me on the 33 and 10$ for you as well. If 33 shows up, you bring me to a French “3…
Rick (via Twitter) tells me he is baffled by this chart that showed up in Financial Review: I'm baffled as well. What might the designer have in mind? Based on the cues such as length of the curves, one would...
Dona Wong asked me to comment on a project by the New York Fed visualizing funding and expenditure at NY and NJ schools. The link to the charts is here. You have to click through to see the animation. Here...
Note: The winner of the Book Quiz Round 2 was announced on my book blog. Congratulations to the winners. You can get your own copy of Numbersense here. *** A common advice for anyone living in the U.S. is "read...
There is some banter on Twitter about a chart that appeared in The Atlantic on "Pixar's Sad Decline--in One Chart". (@thewhyaxis, @jschwabish, @tealtan). Link to article *** It's a bit horrible but not the worst chart ever. The most offensive...
One of the most important steps in analyzing data is to remove noise. First, we have to identify where the noise is, then we find ways to reduce the noise, which has the effect of surfacing the signal. The labor...
