Unruly data? Never mind!
Graphics lie in many ways. Last week, German journal Wirtschaftswoche favored fudging with time scales. Three times in one issue alone. Indeed statistics are notoriously inaccurate. Often incomplete. Forecasts even more. Never mind, says Wirtschaftswoche. Use wide bars and irregular time scales. Readers might be dumb enough not to notice. Some dogs might not.
Source: Wirtschaftwoche, issue 27/2008 of 2008–06–30, p. 60
Redesign: me
Source: Wirtschaftwoche, issue 27/2008 of 2008–06–30, p. 7 6
Redesign: me
Source: Wirtschaftwoche, issue 27/2008 of 2008–06–30, p. 85
Redesign: me
Posted on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
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July 15th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
I agree with you on the first case, since you have min/max values for the bands, but wouldn’t you agree that a simple line plot would work better for the latter examples, and with much less ink?
October 15th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
No, Sir. Please, this would cover the sparse data even more.