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This was a great example of design hindering interpretation. The graph’s diagonal/diamond shape made legibility much harder. A traditionally oriented graph wo
by kweinber 9y ago
This was a great example of design hindering interpretation. The graph’s diagonal/diamond shape made legibility much harder. A traditionally oriented graph would have been trivial to read and correlation more obvious.
- christudor 9y agoCompletely agree. This graph is impossible to read.
- IAmGraydon 9y agoYeah - this is nothing short of terrible.
- Jetroid 9y agoYou're right, this chart [1] from their blog post about it [2] is far easier to read. I don't like the design as given. [1] http://2oqz471sa19h3vbwa53m33yj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/happiness-gdp-highlight.jpg http://2oqz471sa19h3vbwa53m33yj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c... [2] http://www.visualcapitalist.com/relationship-money-happiness/ http://www.visualcapitalist.com/relationship-money-happiness...
- crusso 9y agoI think they were trying to show something meaningful with the orientation by having their "Trend Line" be the one horizontal metric. I didn't really understand how they came up with that as a trend line. I agree that they made an obvious decision to give design preference over legibility. My first glance at the page was "this is neat", but as I tried to wrap my brain around the data, my thoughts changed to "what an unnecessary mess".
- redblacktree 9y agoI was physically turning my head 45 degrees to the right to figure out what was going on in the graph.
- limaoscarjuliet 9y agoI think it was an attempt to prove the point that money != happiness. But, ironically, the trend line shows the opposite: for majority of countries $ and happiness are correlated, hence the trend line.
- markoman 9y agoAgree. But even the data is questionable. How can Singapore & Luxembourg be richer than Norway? Did they include all the Norwegian oil profits?