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I think they used it because, in that little space in the middle of the article, vertical space is more precious than horizontal space. So they traded off a lit
by projectramo 8y ago
I think they used it because, in that little space in the middle of the article, vertical space is more precious than horizontal space. So they traded off a little of one for a little of the other.
Why does it feel less intuitive than regular bar graphs? I thought the criticism of bar graphs was exactly that people substitute area for height so the visuals are misleading.
- Waterluvian 8y agoI think I have a harder time visualizing relative sizes on two axes than one. I never thought of your point before though.
- tomp 8y agoIt could be a horizontal bar graph, no?
- projectramo 8y agoyes, good point.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> I thought the criticism of bar graphs was exactly that people substitute area for height so the visuals are misleading. The usual criticism is that it's harder to compare areas than lengths, so one should avoid mapping data to areas.