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No, it's not common to see this kind of visualisation. Bad visualisations? Yeah, they're pretty common. The usual mistake is overuse of Pie Charts. I'd reco

• tgb 14y ago
  Ironically, the OP recommends that you read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, as well. I suspect that the mediocre example (I thought it was reasonably readable and somewhat interesting) was there more as a demonstration of the fact that R makes non-scatter plots easily, too.
  • mrdub 14y ago
    It's from http://www.jasondavies.com/parallel-sets/ http://www.jasondavies.com/parallel-sets/ and is one of the example plots for http://d3js.org/ http://d3js.org/
    • weaksauce 14y ago
      I must say that the icicle plot of the same data is way more readable. The crisscrossing lines are all but useless to get a feel of the data. go to http://www.jasondavies.com/parallel-sets/ http://www.jasondavies.com/parallel-sets/ and click on icicle plot to see what is going on.