Appetizing Data

The Talking Heads TRÉS CHIC¿ Recently, I challenged my students to remake poorly designed graphs for their assignments. Fortunately, one of them stumbled upon this nugget. Inspired to craft a new Radical Makeover myself, I realized what the graph actually does well. Putting aside the crazy aesthetics, faulty scales and political bias, it makes an…

How’s The Histogram Hanging? The Perfect Solution For Asymmetrical Countries TRÉS CHIC¿ Living in a country that is not symmetrical can lead to a lot of annoyances: They range from the uneven distribution of resources, difficulties in transportation, infrastructure development and limited access to certain areas, to administrative complexity and cultural-linguistic fragmentation. First and foremost…

Radical Makeovers Unshrinking The World PART II In this series, we are analyzing and remaking poorly designed data visualizations found on the internet. Today’s chart has been ridiculed a lot on Twitter and surprisingly there seems to be more than version of this circling around.1,2 We will go with the graph constituting the original sin:…

Radical Makeovers Dr. Hochhaus‘ Redemption PART I In this series, we are analyzing and remaking poorly designed data visualizations found on the internet. This first installment will focus on a particularly infamous graph created by a certain Dr. Hochhaus who seems to be interested in the yearly exports of bananas by country: This graph is…