This week’s 60-second tip is to head on over to Sarah Leo’s article on Medium the next time you have 8 minutes to spare and read about mistakes she and others at The Economist have made when visualizing data. It’s called “Mistakes, we’ve made a few: learning from our errors in data visualization.”
First, it will make you feel better about your own mistakes. Even the pros get it wrong sometimes.
Second, it will test your data viz prowess. If you have been digesting my bite-sized morsels of data viz wisdom on a regular basis, then use this article as a little quiz. Take a look at Leo’s “before” and “after” vizes and figure out why the “after” version is better.
Third, it may give you some new ideas on how to visualize your own data!
See other data tips in this series for more information on how to effectively visualize and make good use of your organization's data.
Error by Roselin Christina.S from the Noun Project