What I dislike about this kind of infographic is that there is no logical reason for the arrangement of items in the framework of the graphic.

In these maps, various artists are randomly arranged as the stations on the subway line, without caring about the similarities between adjacent artists. In the faux Periodic Tables of WTF items are arbitrarily placed into boxes, without any sense of belonging to a particular period or row.

Most of these illustrations are less useful than a simple list of the elements they display.