30 minutes with Tableau, thoughts on “Circle-Lust Continues”. Overuse of “novel” but worthless charts http://www.freakalytics.com/blog/Da
Finally, the winners amusingly told Stephen Few, “I don’t think you understand the meaning of this.” I am sorry, but I am afraid that you don’t understand the point of visual innovation; it should actually improve the experience of the viewer, not just use a novel technique for the sake of novelty.
That is an awful graphic! It takes brazen confidence to tell Stephen Few he doesn't understand the meaning of what seems to reduce to a simple chart.
Was this the winner of the Sunlight Foundation's $5000 prize? How unfortunate, as all indications to-date led me to hold them in high esteem. Sunlight does good work, I hope they weren't misled in blowing $5K on that entry from Pitch Interactive.
I was curious so I visited the Pitch Interactive site. Some straightforward decent work followed the image you cited. But further along in the portfolio I saw a data visual with this description:
Background on data and diagram: These diagrams were origionally created for a project that we are unable to disclose due to confidentially agreements. The origional data set, consisting of over 14 millions rows of data, has been shuffled and sampled beyond recognition of its orgional form
The Colour Economy resembled a multitude of pastel anatomical drawings, specifically, cross-sections of the human eye complete with optic nerve, cornea and retina. I clearly do not understand the meaning of it.
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