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The chosen visualizations are not helpful. They look like slides from a slide deck for executives. The green blobs in the corners are not related to to the data
by brian_spiering 8y ago
The chosen visualizations are not helpful. They look like slides from a slide deck for executives. The green blobs in the corners are not related to to the data. Geographic data should be shown on a map.
- drenvuk 8y agoYou seem to be nitpicking, they were easy enough to read and displayed information as indicated by their labels.
- zamadatix 8y agoHow do you graphically show top 10s on a map without just making it into text lists with a background instead of title?
- greggyb 8y agoI actually would object that geographic data should rarely be shown on a map. A data visualization should be chosen such that it helps the viewer to better understand the information contained within. Maps are great at showing some very specific types of information, namely boundaries around areas and the positions of those bounded areas relative to one another. If you have information that is intimately related to those boundaries and areas, then by all means plot the information on a picture of those. The geographical regions in the article serve only as categories. There is no intent to educate or present the relative positions of those regions to one another. You criticize the extraneous green blobs. What benefit and clarity is gained by adding other blobs (shapes on a map) and divorcing the relative ranking from an easy-to-interpret linear scale? How does that aid in understanding the relative popularity of languages?
- vharuck 8y agoMaps can serve as a chart of data relations and/or a listing for easy lookup. But, yeah, it's disappointing most people dislike non-map charts with geographic categories.