Comments for Chart Porn

Comment on 1870 Census Maps by Rich Mithoff

Rich Mithoff — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:18:05 +0000

Love the very last chart…apparently they counted the number of idiots. Maybe we need to bring that back.

Comment on 1870 Census Maps by Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:10:29 +0000

Talk about chart porn!

Comment on Global Recession Map by Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:44:25 +0000

Something like that would help a lot. I see that you already added that for France. I understand that these are somewhat broad qualitative categories, but giving a date context is important. Perhaps just update the whole chart quarterly? When I first saw it I thought “this is great” but when I browsed the popups and realized that each country was based on such widely different data time periods I thought “why bother putting it on a map for comparison?”

Thanks for asking!

Comment on Mobile Pie Chart Hell by CJ

CJ — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:22:56 +0000

What does the brown/yellow one (How the Internet is accessed) supposed to represent? Two of the slices of pie are “from Mobile exclusively”

Comment on Global Recession Map by A Cassel

A Cassel — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:21:41 +0000

Thanks for the critique. Would your concern be addressed if each country’s text balloon included the last-update date? Or am I missing something here? We’re eager to improve and would welcome any suggestions.

A Cassel
Editor in Chief
Moody’s Economy.com

Comment on Iraq Update: Everyday Life by CrisisMaven

CrisisMaven — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:24:02 +0000

Yours is a GREAT site! Found it on Visible Certanty's blog roll and put you into my Data Visualisation References resource list! (Will be updated a little later today.)

Comment on US Age Pyramid? by Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:29:36 +0000

Maybe it just shouldn’t have been pink/red.

But when you think about it, the color choice is fitting seeing as how that is where the whole population gets started.

Comment on Olympic Pictograms by Harry

Harry — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:54:06 +0000

It was interesting to watch, but I found his dismissive treatment of some of the sets offensive.

Comment on Web Design Hell by Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:16:01 +0000

So designers want things that clients don’t. This is true, yes.

Comment on Tableau Public Examples by joe

joe — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:12:57 +0000

for large data sets (government sources) go to Data Ferret. It’s an excellent resource.