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Either because the infographic designers haven’t read what The Visual Display of Quantitative Information about accurately depicting time-series, or because the
by qubex 9y ago
Either because the infographic designers haven’t read what The Visual Display of Quantitative Information about accurately depicting time-series, or because they have read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and are abusing its dicta to make graphs that are as dramatic as possible.
- philipodonnell 9y agoI was at a visualization meetup last night and one of the attendees said something about blowing a sparkline up really large on the page and adding numbers to see it better and I quipped about Tufte rolling in his grave. People don't read these days. :-(
- qubex 9y agoApart from any other consideration, as far as I know Edward Tufte is alive and well.
- philipodonnell 9y agoI know, but no one got that joke either.
- qubex 9y agoWell played.
- philipodonnell 9y agoHa, sorry, unintentionally in your case. My humor does not always translate to the written word. :-)
- qubex 9y agoThe most hilarious aspect of this is that some irritable ignoramus has down-voted my “well played” comment. I'm beside myself with laughter.
- philipodonnell 9y agoI upvoted your back. And well played right back at ya.
- learnstats2 9y agoYou seem to have understood close to the opposite of the author's intent: "In general, in a time-series, use a baseline that shows the data not the zero point." - Edward Tufte.
- qubex 9y agoI'm delighted to see you're well-acquainted with the source. I'm absolutely certain he advocates having some kind of evident glyph in the Y axis to indicate discontinuity and the nonzero baseline, I think it was the classic // mark or something akin to it. Am I wrong? That's what I meant by abusing its dicta to make dramatic graphs.