Comments on: The bad and good visualization https://pages.graphics.cs.wisc.edu/765-10/archives/528-the-bad-and-good-visualization Course web for CS838 Spring 2010, Visualization Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.4 By: lyalex https://pages.graphics.cs.wisc.edu/765-10/archives/528-the-bad-and-good-visualization#comment-129 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:45:30 +0000 http://graphics.cs.wisc.edu/Courses/Visualization10/?p=528#comment-129 The “bad” one shouldn’t be considered as a very bad one. As it’s from a scientific report, the main point might not only be the natural rate of population, but also be the birth rate and the death rate. Thus, only emphasize the natural rate of population might not be a good solution. I like the figure as it is, since it gives out a very complete data: the natural rate of population, the birth rate and the death rate, and their changing and shifting with time. The difference between the plot for the developing countries and for the developed countries is obvious, but the comparison is not explicit. This might be a major drawback of the design.

]]> By: faisal https://pages.graphics.cs.wisc.edu/765-10/archives/528-the-bad-and-good-visualization#comment-128 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:07:52 +0000 http://graphics.cs.wisc.edu/Courses/Visualization10/?p=528#comment-128 The population plot makes it harder to know the exact rate of natural growth. But the intent was not to show exact value,rather, give an overall picture of natural growth in developing countries in comparison to developed ones. In this regard, I would say that the visualization did a good job. A side by side plot with common-axis seems to be a fairly good (and also clean) indicator for comparison. Sometimes drawing two plots on same axis can increase clutter.

One bad points for this visualization are is from Tufte’s guidelines of missing the source of their data.

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