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Simple Bars vs Fanciful Circles
Design for America was an excellent initiative by Sunlight Labs that encouraged contestants to apply design and data visualization techniques to the wealth of government data that is now available....
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Too many bars
With the announcement a couple months ago of steep cuts to StatsCan’s budget, it seems a post about the value of the data they provide, and hopes that its quality will not degrade, would be in order....
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The Pursuit of Better
Visualizing.org is currently running an Olympic games visualization challenge. You can view all of the entries here and vote on them if you like. The contest has 3 criteria: Understanding (10 Points)...
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Diverging Stacked Bars
I’m currently going through Alberto Cairo’s online visualization course and our first exercise was to assess the merits and shortcomings of selected infographics. One graphic was in the now ubiquitous...
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Data looks better naked
Edward Tufte introduced the concept of data-ink in his 1983 classic The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. In it he states “Data-ink is the non-erasable core of the graphic, the non-redundant...
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Clear Off the Table
We received a lot of attention for our Data Looks Better Naked post. People got bored on Christmas Eve and some interesting searches for Star Trek somehow landed them on our page. Now their charts look...
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Salvaging the Pie
The poor, maligned 3D pie chart. He is so popular among the common folk, but put him next to his peers and his vacant stare betrays (not entirely unfounded) feelings of insecurity and inadequacy....
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When small is more
We’ve done a few critique/redesigns of graphics on the site, but now its time to shine that sometimes unflattering light back on ourselves. While going through some materials I came across a graphic...
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Radar: More Evil Than Pie?
It is by now common knowledge among the viz-savvy crowd that pie charts are best avoided. Many pixels have been used explaining why pies are bad, when occasionally pies are good, and my personal...
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