Please note that this is programming I purely did for the learning experience. The pure R bubble sort implemented in this post is veeeeery slow for two reasons: Interpreted code with lots of iteration is very slow. Bubble sort is… See more ›
Please note that this is programming I purely did for the learning experience. The pure R bubble sort implemented in this post is veeeeery slow for two reasons: Interpreted code with lots of iteration is very slow. Bubble sort is… See more ›
I shouldn't be surprised by this. No sooner did I sing the praise of Significance magazine (link) than a reader sent me to some charts that are not deserving of their standard. Here is one such chart (link): Quite a...
@guitarzan wants us to see this chart from north of the border, and read the comments. Please hold your nose first. Here's one insightful comment: "I think it's insane to debate the ages 18 or 19. Why not cap it...
Ken B., another Australian reader, wasn't too proud of this effort, apparently excerpted from an HSBC report by the Sydney Morning Herald (link): Ken: If you plot ranking by ranking it magically turns into a straight line. *** There are...
On my holiday travel, I found a disguised donut chart in the Delta Sky Magazine (Dec 2010), talking about manufacturing jobs in the U.S. Then, flipping through the Spanish section at the back of the same magazine, I found the...
A reader, Stephen M., who's a high school math Information Technology teacher in Australia, assigned the following chart to his class as a Junk Charts style assignment. (link to original here) We have seen racetrack charts before (e.g. here or...
I enjoy looking at the New York Times' summation of National Convention speeches via visualization. (link) It's a disguised word cloud combined with a bubble chart with a little bar chart thrown in for good measure. The size of the...
This pair of WSJ charts I like very much. The article talks about the effect of early voting during Presidential elections in the States. People are allowed to mail in their votes as early as 2 months before the November...
Readers Fausto and Jeruza have a question for us. In the following official schedule (link) for the upcoming London Olympics, what do the colors signify? The blue seems to signify aquatics (diving, rowing, sailing, etc.) except that at the bottom...
Ryan McCarthy linked to a post by Ruchir Sharma running on Ezra Klein's blog analyzing global billionaires. It has an accompanying chart, which fails our self-sufficiency test. That test involves erasing raw data from a chart, and figuring out how...
