The abuse (and re-abuse) of graphs…
(Originally written May 10; posted May 17)
If you’ve had the (mis)fortune to work with me in recent months, you’ll know that I’m on a bit of a warpath against poorly-labelled graphs. And that I think label-challenged chartists should be consigned to one of Dante’s famous nine circles of Hell — or at a minimum, one of his obscure, seven terraces of Purgatory.
After getting home Friday, refreshed from a good week’s work, I saw the following on Flowing Data, which makes the case better than any 1022 words of my own raging rhetoric, ever could.
