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The article aside, please take note of the infographics. They are among the worst I've ever seen, particularly for a professional publication. I actually stoppe
by randomdrake 14y ago
The article aside, please take note of the infographics. They are among the worst I've ever seen, particularly for a professional publication. I actually stopped reading the article when I ran into them.
I only got to the first two, so I'll attack them directly:
1) Using all diagonal lines with no color and no difference in angle or pattern, beyond a slight amount of thickness, makes it extremely difficult to easily see the dividing lines. The text is tilted all sorts of different ways making it very hard to digest. Why are there additional pie-looking things stacked around with different squiggly lines? The effect is extremely jarring and I wasn't able to garner any meaningful information from it.
2) Again, the text is slanted this way and that way. Why is 27% the largest number? 40% appears the smallest. What does that even mean? The black points seem to point to something, or maybe they don't?
When you're trying to convey information, this is a perfect example of how not to do it.
- tdicola 14y agoCame to complain about the same infographics too. I don't even understand why they tried to make the charts look like a bad tetris game. Seems like a perfect example of 'chartjunk'.
- CrankyPants 14y agoYeah. Perhaps they gave it to the team that does their covers; they've got a 'desperate to seem novel' feeling to them lately that doesn't suit the image of the publication (or the quality of much of the content inside).