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This article is hard to parse with the percent increases and decreases and using an arbitrary demarcation date. Why not show YoY, as well as the percent of tot
by ec109685 6y ago
This article is hard to parse with the percent increases and decreases and using an arbitrary demarcation date.
Why not show YoY, as well as the percent of total businesses that have closed and compare that to a similar timeframe from last year.
- brauhaus 6y agoNot to mention that first chart, using bars plotted over the us map. Urg!
- edoceo 6y agoToo right! A clear case for circles to represent the Q of the data.
- redis_mlc 6y agoThose US map charts are truly special. Probably the ugliest, least-understandable charts I've ever seen - love the labels that cut off the bars, too. lol.
- vharuck 6y agoI've tried to use bars in a map for a report before. It took me a bunch of redesigns until it had something I liked (equally sized rectangles filled in proportion to the measure, no overlaps, and a thin line cutting across to show a baseline). Even then, it was nixed for taking too much effort to parse. This article's maps are barely useful. A table would've been better. If you have to label the rankings, it's a clear sign nobody can make comparisons with your map.