I often complain that infoviz for web stats is poor if you’re not an analyst by trade. Now that I’m working for one of the most popular websites in the world, I should at least come up with a device that could be used to answer the fundamental questions we have when looking at real-time analysis of a news article: Is this article doing well? Is it likely to do better or worse from now on? Should we replace this article with another one? Obviously…
Tag: statistical graphics
I dislike pie charts. I may even dislike people who use them. But even worse than a pie chart is a quite recent device that doesn’t (I don’t think) have a name. These are the circles that appear mostly in newspapers and magazines to illustrate some quantitative comparison – here’s an example of what I mean. This technique has perhaps been legitimised by the likes of David McCandless, who appears obsessed by both circles and the using of areas to …