Re:CNN Has a Strong Contender for the Worst Chart You’ll Eve...
by jwilber on Thursday June 24, 2021 @06:48PM
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Things wrong (maybe not exhaustive):
- x-axis ordered right-to-left
- inconsistent scale in x-axis
- y-axis values that “tell the story “ are all within the margin of error (ie is there even a story?)
- y-axis doesn’t start at 0.0
- brick wall background ticks don’t appear to relate to y-axis
Aesthetic, but:
- useless area shading and random opacity changes (unless this is a photo of a screen?)
Also the story is itself nothing. Apart from basically all the data laying in the MOE, the increase comes from the anomalous year: of course crime went up after covid. Did it go up higher than previous years? This chart couldn’t tell you.
- x-axis ordered right-to-left
- inconsistent scale in x-axis
- y-axis values that “tell the story “ are all within the margin of error (ie is there even a story?)
- y-axis doesn’t start at 0.0
- brick wall background ticks don’t appear to relate to y-axis
Aesthetic, but:
- useless area shading and random opacity changes (unless this is a photo of a screen?)
Also the story is itself nothing. Apart from basically all the data laying in the MOE, the increase comes from the anomalous year: of course crime went up after covid. Did it go up higher than previous years? This chart couldn’t tell you.