Tuesday, February 26, 2008
When Data Is Beautiful
Those of you who are fans of creative graphic representations of data might like this nifty Flash chart from the NY Times. Not quite the Minard Map, but still.
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I've seen that style of graph before somewhere, representing the popularity of baby names over the years. It's cool, though I dislike the fact that it's hard to look at without biasing the 'higher' entries over the lower ones. Actual position on the graph doesn't matter though, it's all mass.
Yeh, I agree about the height bias. I almost wonder if a bias like that could be eliminated by animating each datapoint in a random way--so that each one would kind of move up and down and jiggle and contort randomly, but always retain the same surface area... that way all such biases would cancel out?
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