Better Axes
From the Pictures of Numbers site: a great article on improving axes in charts.
Last reviewed 6 November 2007
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Depicting data
Resources related to charts, graphs, diagrams and other ways of depicting data.
Depicting very large numbers
In Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait, Chris Jordan creates photographic images by using many many examples of an item that represents the variable. His work includes depicting the 2.3 million Americans incarcerated in 2005, the 11,000 commercial flights in the US every 8 hours, and the 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags used in the US every hour.
He says:
it [is] difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison
Last reviewed 15 September 2007
How to Construct Bad Charts and Graphs
Good examples of bad charts, or, how not to present your data accurately or effectively, from Gary Klass at Illinois State University.
Last reviewed 17 September 2007
Information Aesthetics
News and information about a wide variety of issues in aesthetics and data visualization. Infosthetics.com is the blog of Andrew Vande Moere from the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney, who has partly eschewed the capital letter for reasons unclear.
Last reviewed 17 September 2007
Pictures of Numbers: Disproportionate Risk
So Iran has more Shiites than any other country shown? Wrong! This diagram from the New York Times Magazine is very misleading. What wrong with it? Mike Dickison at the Pictures of Numbers website explains.
Last reviewed 6 November 2007