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This shows you exactly what not to do with your info-viz. They show about 100 milk jugs of gray gradient and say, imagine if there were 184 million of them? Wh
by viggity 16y ago
This shows you exactly what not to do with your info-viz. They show about 100 milk jugs of gray gradient and say, imagine if there were 184 million of them?
Whoa Whoa Whoa. HOLD THE BOAT. You (CNBC) are telling me that the oil spill is 184 million gallons is also equivalent to 184 MILLION ONE-GALLON MILK JUGS?!?!? That is just crazy - consider my mind BLOWN! Perhaps you could show a pyramid of 184 million gallon jugs and put a small outline of a 6' tall man next to it?
Then there is this one: http://www.cnbc.com/id/38294088/?slide=7 http://www.cnbc.com/id/38294088/?slide=7 At least there is some useful information on this slide "674K Homes for one year". But why the hell show a picture of the entire electrical grid? It doesn't make any sense.
The rest of them are pretty bad as well, they either don't show scale, or they show a very misleading scale.
- mbyrne 16y agoHere, let me help you out since a "gallon milk jug" is apparently a little too big of a concept for your mind to hold. Picture this: a Quart container of milk, and now just imagine 736 million of them. Doesn't that make it easier to relate to on an intuitive level? I thought so. Courtesy of the CNBC Visualization Graphics Help Desk.
- Retric 16y agoMost of the pictures sucked, but the text is not that bad. It's reasonable to compare the spill to Gallons per person in the US, but the graphic shows nothing of the sort. EX: http://www.cnbc.com/id/38294088/?slide=9 http://www.cnbc.com/id/38294088/?slide=9 there is no indication on the picture as to what it represents, but read the text and it's ok.