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. :)

Graph labels are for chumps

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