Forbes : Natječaj za ispravljanje loše vizualizacije
Naomi Robbins on Forbes.com presented a graph and a table and asked readers to present alternatives. I choose to improve this graph: The main reason is because there are far better ways to display this kind of information. I present 2 alternatives: 1) first of which is better to present part-in-the whole percentages of social media and quick comparison for b2b and b2c companies : (you can easily ask yourself – where did LinkedIn vanish for b2c?) 1) second of which is better to...
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Data viz challenge: Kako mladi pretražuju web?
Yesterday I stumbled upon an article on storytellingwithdata.com. I quote the author: “I was surprised reading this article how many stats were included and yet how few visuals. Only one graph, in fact: My challenge to you is this: read the article and determine what data you find most interesting then visualize it. You can remake the above graph, or focus on bringing life to numbers included in the report by making them visual. ” So I decided to look at the article and...
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VL – nova loša vizualizacija
Jutros smo u Večernjem Listu mogli čitati o podignutim kreditima u posljednje vrijeme za autoceste u Hrvatskoj. Kao prilog tekstu nalazi se i grafički prikaz koji bi čitatelju trebao približiti brojčane informacije: Na žalost, za razliku od nekoliko prethodnih grafičkih prikaza koje sam pratio, ovaj neslavno pada na osnovnom zadatku – informiranju. Razloga je nekoliko. Prije svega, upotreba deblje zelene linije za vrijednost kredita, a zatim tanje za neku drugu mjeru nije loša...
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LinkedIn Data Visualization Challenge
On Visual Analytics Group on LinkedIn there is an interesting discussion going on: “Based on the popularity of the Brian Bedrick’s “Looking for a Better Way to Display This Graph” post I thought it would be interesting to post another small data set and see what people come up with. I’ve found what I think might be an interesting data set here: http://www.calvin.edu/~stob/data/television.csv” We took the data and make some graphical representations on basic...
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When to use Bar, Line or Area graph and Why?
Report builders are often in situation that they are presented with data about products revenue like : Then they are asked to visualize that data graphically in their report. Unfortunatelly, they will also very often try to do that in unappropriate way, with Pie charts. Edward Tufte in “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information” wrote that the only worse design than a pie chart is several of them, for then the viewer is asked to compare quantities located in spatial disarray...
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