12.3.2012: good graph bad graph

Examples to start class:

• http://www.infovis.net/imagenes/T1_N79_A2_ShrinkingDollar.gif

• http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/424/pics/week2/barrel1.jpg

  • http://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/424/week03.html (scroll down to consoles)

  • cutting off bars is a terrible choice.

    • assume five grades on a test.

    • change in price of gas.

Good Graphs:

Round One: The Bar Plots!

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/live_stats/html/graph.stm

• http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/the_state_worker/100514%20Education%20chart.JPG

• http://cognitivelibertyuk.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/new-drug-harm-chartsgraphsdata-rourably-on-psychedelicseflect-fav/

• http://i.imgur.com/mHzjb.png

• http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/07/29/health/29cancer.graph.web.html

Rounds Two: Maps!

• http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2011/migration.html

• http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/plenty-more-fish-in-the-sea/

• http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president

• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html

• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/MapofEmergingUSMegaregions.png

Round Three: Various Interactives

• http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/11/06/164408156/old-people-versus-babies-in-one-graph

• http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitterStreamGraphs/view.php

• http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/who-runs-the-world/

• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/17/washington/20090117_ADDRESSES.html

• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/03/business/20080403_SPENDING_GRAPHIC.html

Round Four: Various Statics

• http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/gallery/information-graphics-in-context/

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/10/19/what-the-election-means-for-health-care-in-one-graph/

• http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/google-ngram-experiments/

• http://7.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/facebook-us-large.jpg

Bad Graphs:

Division One: Well Rounded!

• http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2011/12/07/the-causes-of-cancer-you-can-control/

• http://flowingdata.com/2012/05/23/venn-pie-agrams/

• http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-oil-supplements/

• http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetorch/2012/08/10/158569089/seeing-the-world-through-the-olympic-rings-and-infographicsinfographics

• http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/timelines/

Division Two: Maps!

• http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/because-every-country-is-the-best-at-something/

• http://andrewgelman.com/2009/07/cool_graphs_of/

• http://www.inspirationgreen.com/population-and-climate-change.html

Divsion Three: Various Things (and barplots)

• http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html

• http://math.youngzones.org/histogram.gif

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/52495060@N08/6811437082/in/pool-1859486@N25/

• http://junkcharts.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341e992c53ef017c33580eb0970b-pi

  • http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/snapshot.htm (click right two graphs for specific named offender)

Division Four: Fox News!

• http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/50b62b796bb3f7084c00000e-548-411/fox-news-graph-fail.png?maxX=590

• http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/50b62bb46bb3f74050000000-644-476/fox-news-graph-fail.png

• http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/50b62bf0ecad04d16e000005-590-356/fox-news-graph-fail.jpeg

• http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/50b62c0cecad04c66e000014-590-443/fox-news-graph-fail.jpeg

• http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/50b62c2669beddc340000005-470-272/fox-news-graph-fail.png

• http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/50b62c6569bedd5e3e000013-500-250/fox-news-graph-fail.jpeg