Apr 26 2017
New Chart Junk: Squaring The Pie
The purpose of graphics for data visualization is communication, not decoration, which is often forgotten in publications as well as on company performance dashboards. A case in point is the chart on yesterday’s cover of the New York Times. It shows that solar energy currently accounts for more than twice as many jobs as coal. It also shows the numbers of jobs in different sectors and uses a color code to mark some as based on fossil fuels versus renewable and low-emission technologies.
Until recently, most publications would have used a pie chart. Now, graphic artists have found a way to square the pie chart into yet another style that will most likely trickle down to slideware and office walls, in spite of a low data-to-ink ratio and the use of two-dimensional shapes to display one-dimensional data.
Mar 24 2020
A Sobering But Remarkable Chart | Josh Katz and Margot Sanger-Katz | New York Times
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“As the coronavirus pandemic unfolds, people are dying around the world. But the trajectories of cases and deaths differ by country.”
Source: The New York Times
Michel Baudin‘s comments: On two prior occasions, I pointed out remarkable graphics in the New York Times:
This one, however, is remarkably rich, yet readable thanks to details like labeling the lines with the name of the country, as opposed to having the names in a legend block. The author, Josh Katz. is a graphics editor for the newspaper and his co-author, Margot Sanger-Katz, a writer on health care.
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By Michel Baudin • Press clippings • 0 • Tags: Data visualization