Tag: Bad Visualizations
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Bad Data Visualizations
In everyday media such as magazines and newspapers, we are constantly bombarded with attractive graphics that attempt to catch our attention while displaying useful data and statistics. Unfortunately, even the best looking graphics can have major flaws. Below, we’ll explore some example graphics and try to find where they went wrong. The intention of…
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Bad Visualizations and (Hopefully Not) You
The above graphic fails to be a successful (or particularly useful) visualization on multiple accounts. On one hand, it is labeled properly at the top (we know what the overall intent of the graph is) and color coordination is generally straightforward (one type of color per continent represented). But yet this visualization still is a…