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US Debt
In: Global Economy| Politics| US Economy
13 Oct 2009Who owns the United States debt?
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October 21st, 2009 at 7:06 am
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confuseatron
October 21st, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Terrible. The wrap on the smaller values at the bottom make it hard to compare the relative sizes visually. Looking up a country by color- so many shades and the data color is on a different background than the legend color. The difference in value between the white and the grey background is bigger than the difference between some of the data colors.
It’s a interesting visual pattern but useless as data. Good example of what not to do.
Mary Leek
October 21st, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I like the chart, but the title needs fixing …