Test Pattern
I feel a little cruel starting with this one but hey, I'm just warming up. May as well make it easy on myself.
View ArticleTest Pattern Retuned
All right then. Enough complaining, time for repair. Here's a redrawing of the graph along sane principles.
View ArticleIce Age
How much more CO2 is there now, compared with previous peaks in the record? Cutting off the graph below the crucial data point doesn't help us find out.
View ArticleIce Age Redrawn
Last week I complained bitterly about a graph that had all the data, but still failed to effectively tell readers how much CO2 there is in the atmosphere now, compared to previous epochs. By separating...
View ArticleTax Plans (that’s one for you, nineteen for me).
There's a graph that's doing the rounds, showing the differences between the Republican and Democrat tax cut proposals. It's mostly being sent by Obama supporters, because it shows that Obama is not in...
View ArticleUS Election Cartogram
Today I’m not doing a redrawing; I don’t need to. The magnificent Mark Newman, one of the authors of The Atlas of the Real World has done it for me. Since my redrawing of the Presidential Candidates’...
View ArticleGuess how many cases of Swine Flu have been confirmed in Australia?
This carto-monstrosity shows “suspected” cases, according to, well, they didn’t say. Update: The above graphic was from April 2009. Swine Flu started to hit Australia in June 2009, according to...
View ArticleFox News, Giving it 193%
(thanks to @rod3000) There are of course logical explanations for getting back a result over 100%. A pie chart, however, is not going to show you what they are. In fact I hereby award this chart Most...
View ArticleWhy We Fight
Every now and again I see a particularly egregious chart. Usually, I shake my head in horror and move on. Occasionally however I am moved to redraw it, and blog about it here. My most important...
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