Category Archives: Graphs

A week or so ago, Junk Charts featured a discussion (Rip Tide) of a New York Times chart of how auto-maker market share distribution in the US is becoming more like it is in Europe. The original chart showed lots … Continue reading →

What a journey! From being labeled a “hay seed” [sic] by an anonymous blog commentor to being recoginized as a “ubergeek” in print by the Raleigh News & Observer. The G.D. Gearino column in today’s paper traces his steps to … Continue reading →

My week-end and evenings spent staring at pixels paid off as Comprehensive Winner designation in Business Intelligence Network‘s Data Visualization Competition. My entry included visualizations for all five scenarios, and I won the checking account scenario and tied for first … Continue reading →

I never like it when doctors ask you to rate you pain level on a scale of 1 to 10, and I really don’t see the how it helps to visualize the pain scale. Even stranger, this scale is from … Continue reading →

I’ve posted my entries for the 2006 Data Visualization competition sponsored by Business Intelligence Network and Stephen Few. I used JMP for most of the data manipulation and prototyping and then traced and edited the graphs with OmniGraffle, a nice … Continue reading →

Information visualization specialists like Stephen Few and Howard Wainer often call out the 3-D Pie Chart as a graphical pariah. The curved areas of pie charts are already difficult to compare already, and they become worse when a 3-D perspective … Continue reading →

It’s easy to find critiques of bad graphs (just ask Google), so I’d like to comment on a good graph. The Orange Water and Sewer Authority does a great job of posting graphs of water supply and demand. The graphs … Continue reading →