This is kind of neat from a graphical design perspective, but it doesn't actually relate minimalistic chart design to more informative analytics in any meaningful manner. A concise, well-written blog post would do much more (than a short, hasty animation) to inform people.
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#12The original source with blog post: http://darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-looks-better-naked/
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#13This is kind of neat from a graphical design perspective, but it doesn't actually relate minimalistic chart design to more informative analytics in any meaningful manner. A concise, well-written blog post would do much more (than a short, hasty animation) to inform people.
Actually pretty sure these are all images taken from a blog posted earlier on HN.
edit: Chaz pointed the original out.
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#14This is kind of neat from a graphical design perspective, but it doesn't actually relate minimalistic chart design to more informative analytics in any meaningful manner. A concise, well-written blog post would do much more (than a short, hasty animation) to inform people.
Actually pretty sure these are all images taken from a blog posted earlier on HN. edit: Chaz pointed the original out.
Regrettably the blog post is just a link to a slideshow with no relevant additional information.
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#15This is kind of neat from a graphical design perspective, but it doesn't actually relate minimalistic chart design to more informative analytics in any meaningful manner. A concise, well-written blog post would do much more (than a short, hasty animation) to inform people.
Actually pretty sure these are all images taken from a blog posted earlier on HN. edit: Chaz pointed the original out.
Got the gif from a friend. Thanks for point out the original blog post. Just wanted to share the difference between having high redundancy vs less redundancy in visualizations.
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#16That's just following Edward Tufte's maxim to minimize chart junk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk
Any of you on HN that aren't familiar with "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" should give it a read (and the rest of his books).
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#17This is kind of neat from a graphical design perspective, but it doesn't actually relate minimalistic chart design to more informative analytics in any meaningful manner. A concise, well-written blog post would do much more (than a short, hasty animation) to inform people.
Adding words to this concise, clear, and convincing visual argument would be the equivalent of adding the chartjunk back to the graph.
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#18Good analysis here: http://betterposters.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/link-roundup-for...
If you don't have the y-axis, then a) there's no point in having it as a graph and b) there's the possibility for manipulative display.
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#19That's just following Edward Tufte's maxim to minimize chart junk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk Any of you on HN that aren't familiar with "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" should give it a read (and the rest of his books).
> and the rest of his books
I find his books to be a bit too light on the content. All of them combined would've made a great book that would still be of a reasonable thickness, but he is self-published and he makes his living from lectures and book sales, so he's probably not too interested in that.
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#20somebody got good websites on best practice visualization?