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DataGraphics

• The Good: Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

• The Bad: Examples from the USA Today Snapshot Index.

  Bar Charts

  • Tools We Use at Meetings Proportionality.
  • Job Boom Design variation.
  • Holiday Gift Spending Ambiguous labels.
  • Prayer in School Where is the axis?
  • Blood Alcohol Limit Where are the data?
  • Show Me the Money Too many dimensions.
  • Why Americans Want Mars Missions
    (Source: Poll by Harris Interactive for SPACE.com)

  Histogram

  • Paperless Office Bin width

  Time Series

  • Consumer Debt Axis scales?
    (What is a dollar worth? CPI Calculator)

  Two-way Table

  • Pay Raises Missing the story.

• The Ugly: Middlebury's Web Usage Statistics

Here is a review (from Salon Magazine) of Tufte's books about data display.

 

Homework

1. Read Chapter 15 in the Moore text.