#slopegraph

[badvisualisations]

This is absolutely atrocious stuff - if dodged bars are hard enough to get information out of, why would you add a separate bar, in a different shade, which possibly has different units (percentage versus percentage points?)? 

The best way I would think of showing this information is a slopegraph, where for each category, you’d see the level in 2015 and level in 2017, and a line connecting the two, and the slope of that line (also possibly coloured) can indicate the degree of change. 

Even a labelled scatter plot would be okay to show this data. It seems like the maker of this graphic chose the worst possible way to show the data

Source: https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1038632265272705025

[viselements]

Science Magazine cracks the mystery of egg shapes using some beautiful #datavis.

[datajournalismlinks]

I’ve found some ways to wrangle Excel to create Slopegraphs, and a shortcut if you’re happy with something that’s almost a Slopegraph, except the second set of series labels are listed with the series name first and then the amount.

[viselements]

After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight, story about the science of fat, by The New York Times.

[milwaukeestat]

Big Lake Data, visualizations analytics presentations

Perhaps the new blog post “Knowing where to start” should be titled “Wait, this isn’t a slopegraph?”

[milwaukeestat]

When your data visualization begins to look like Calatrava architecture.

[visualizationpatterns]

Is the Affordable Care Act Working?

After a year fully in place, the Affordable Care Act has largely succeeded in delivering on President Obama’s main promises, an analysis by a team of reporters and data researchers shows.

[datajournalismlinks]

Brinton prefered slope charts to indicate total movement and was talking about data-ink ratio 70yrs before Tufte.