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Friday, 18 April 2014

8 Tips for Doing Data Visualization Right
4/9/2013
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Tip 1: Accuracy
'If you mess up your data visualization, you lose your credibility' -- and yet data visualizations are littered with mistakes, Krum said. For example, using circle size to show that one category is three times the size of another is correctly done by multiplying the area times three. Yet designers often enlarge the circle by tripling the diameter, and thus misrepresenting the data.
"If you mess up your data visualization, you lose your credibility" -- and yet data visualizations are littered with mistakes, Krum said. For example, using circle size to show that one category is three times the size of another is correctly done by multiplying the area times three. Yet designers often enlarge the circle by tripling the diameter, and thus misrepresenting the data.
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