Comments on: Visualization Critique https://pages.graphics.cs.wisc.edu/765-10/archives/605-visualization-critique Course web for CS838 Spring 2010, Visualization Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:15:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.4 By: Shuang https://pages.graphics.cs.wisc.edu/765-10/archives/605-visualization-critique#comment-133 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:40:10 +0000 http://graphics.cs.wisc.edu/Courses/Visualization10/?p=605#comment-133 I agree with Facial on the bad part of the first plot. It seems to me there are only 3-4 different colors at the first glance. Also, the baseline difference makes it hard to compare the length of each city. Moreover, the goal is to present the average commute time for major U.S. cities, but it does not list the cities names (I cannot distinguish some of them in eastern coast).

For the screenshot of LiveRAC, I think it clearly shows the required information to users. Since the data are time-related, the visualization reflects the variable change against time. As Facial pointed out, each row can be expanded to see the full version, which is another advantage comparing with static plots. I am curious about how large is the dataset, how many rows are there approximately and whether the rows are correlated.

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