Comments on: The Good https://pages.graphics.cs.wisc.edu/765-10/archives/464-the-good Course web for CS838 Spring 2010, Visualization Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:15:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.4 By: hinrichs https://pages.graphics.cs.wisc.edu/765-10/archives/464-the-good#comment-124 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:41:40 +0000 http://graphics.cs.wisc.edu/Courses/Visualization10/?p=464#comment-124 This graphic is a simple and elegant in the way it shows the raw data, but the way it really excels is in the way it highlights the outliers. First, there is the fact that the US is so far ahead of all of the other countries in terms of spending. This point is emphasized by the fact that the US has to be put so far above the legend – all of the other countries fit inside of a neat boundary, which the legend delineates and reinforces, while the US is so far out that the legend has to be adapted so that the line for the US can pass through it. It is a bit hard to read the data from the other lines since they overlap so much, but the real message is in the space separating the US from the rest.

Secondly, there is the emphasis on how only 2 countries have private healthcare, and that in both cases people make the fewest doctor visits. The use of a red hue to signify this draws the viewer’s eye immediately to these 2 cases.

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