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Pet peeve - line charts with many lines, yet legend in another place. Even worse, when the order of labels is not the same as the order of values. They take mor
by stared 7y ago
Pet peeve - line charts with many lines, yet legend in another place. Even worse, when the order of labels is not the same as the order of values. They take more cognitive power to parse than needed.
Compare and contrast with labels next to the lines, vide https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest (this example is already quoted in some other thread, and I find it a gold standard of coronavisualizations).
- disgruntledphd2 7y agoTo be fair to the FT, they have much better graphs than most other newspapers. I especially like the small multiples by country with the gray lines for different countries (UK, Italy, Spain last I checked). It's such a wonderful chart idea that I'm already planning on stealing it.
- stared 7y agoThe Economist has a good baseline for charts. The New York Times has some stunning data visualizations (from the UI/UX perspective), see e.g. "You Draw It" series: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/15/us/politics/you-draw-obama-legacy.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/15/us/politics/y...
- tomduncalf 7y agoEspecially sucks if you are colourblind! I've pretty much given up on reading charts like this
- stared 7y agoAlso, an interactive chart by the New York Times - it makes much easier to see a single country trajectory: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/21/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-by-country.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/21/upshot/corona...