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I love pie charts. Good luck making sense of scatter and bubble charts unless you're already intimate with the data.

• ghaff 11y ago
  And that's something of the challenge with visualizations. Obviously some visualizations are just bad. But others are merely complex because they include a lot of information. This latter sort of visualization won't be appropriate everywhere--like accompanying a typical newspaper story--but it might be just the thing to really dive down into data. A great example of this is actually the Napoleon army graphic that's famous for being in Tufte's first book. It's a great visualization of what happened as Napoleon's army went off to Russia and returned. But what it's showing isn't really immediately obvious (and probably wouldn't be even it if were redesigned in modern graphical style).