April 26, 2014
Tell the truth but tell it slant
From The Times, via Alberto Cairo and junkcharts, an example of how to make an unreadable infographic from two bar charts. Both are at weird angles, one is 3-d and one is half-missing.
[Yes, the cargo containers on the boats are colour-coded by the national flags. Isn’t that sweet?]
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »