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That second graph is horrendously misleading. It does a pretty bad job of comparing the numbers between browsers.
by Osmose 17y ago
That second graph is horrendously misleading. It does a pretty bad job of comparing the numbers between browsers.
- buugs 17y agoThat second graph looks as if no scaling choices were made and the person just randomly chose to put spacing in.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoAll the graphs are hilariously bad for a site with tech-geek audience. They only just stopped using a translucent 3D pie-chart. But it's still tilted, drop-shadowed, single colored and, most importantly of all, a friggin pie chart in which we need to eyeball differences between several items less than 5%. Just give us a table of figures and a bar chart for love of tufte. If you want to be trendy make it sortable with javascript. And it's the trends that actually count anyway! I truly dispair every month when they wheel this out.
- bryansum 17y agoTufte calls it the "Lie factor": size of graphic / size in data. For graph 2, the lie factor for each bar graph is: IE: .25 / .62 = .403 FF: .25 / .2383 = 1.04 Safari: .25 / .0417 = ~6 Chrome: .25 / .034 = 7.35