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Too many colors, too close together in hue, and the hue adjusts not by how the languages are related, but by alpha sorting of the language names. Terrible info
by jackfoxy 16y ago
Too many colors, too close together in hue, and the hue adjusts not by how the languages are related, but by alpha sorting of the language names.
Terrible info graphic! I'm sure I could do much better in 10 minutes, and I'm a rank amateur. Someone has not read Tufte.
- jrockway 16y agoPretty sure he just typed them into R and pasted the result into his blog. How much time should someone spend on a blog post being provided for free?
- adambyrtek 16y agoAgreed, you can publish anything you like on your "provided for free" blog, but if you want anybody to care you should definitely put some effort into that. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1963612 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1963612
- aerique 16y agoAt least five minutes more to create a better graph.
- johapers 16y agoSometimes it is ok to have ugly color combinations just for claritys sake. I guess the author might not agree.