Junk Charts - Kaiser Fung.
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Junk Charts is made by Kaiser Fung, the Web’s first data visualization critic. He discuss what makes graphics work, and how to make them better. Think chartjunk junk art.
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A long-time reader sent me the following map via twitter:
This map tells how the major political groups divide up the European Parliament. I’ll spare you the counting. There are 27 countries, and nine political groups (including the "unaffiliated").
The key chart type is a box of dots. Each country gets its own box. Each box has its own width. What determines the width? If you ask me, it’s the relative span of the countries on the map. For example, the narrow countries like Ireland and Portugal have three dots across while the wider countries like Spain, Germany and Italy have 7, 10 and 8 do ..read more