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Why We Fight 15 Jun 2011 | 05:12 pm
Every now and again I see a particularly egregious chart. Usually, I shake my head in horror and move on. Occasionally however I am moved to redraw it, and blog about it here. My most important redraw...
Fox News, Giving it 193% 25 Nov 2009 | 05:20 pm
(thanks to @rod3000) There are of course logical explanations for getting back a result over 100%. A pie chart, however, is not going to show you what they are. In fact I hereby award this chart Most ...
Guess how many cases of Swine Flu have been confirmed in Australia? 29 Apr 2009 | 03:08 am
This carto-monstrosity shows “suspected” cases, according to, well, they didn’t say. Update: The above graphic was from April 2009. Swine Flu started to hit Australia in June 2009, according to Wolfra...
US Election Cartogram 7 Nov 2008 | 08:24 pm
Today I’m not doing a redrawing; I don’t need to. The magnificent Mark Newman, one of the authors of The Atlas of the Real World has done it for me. Since my redrawing of the Presidential Candidates’ ...
Tax Plans (that’s one for you, nineteen for me). 12 Sep 2008 | 06:30 pm
There's a graph that's doing the rounds, showing the differences between the Republican and Democrat tax cut proposals. It's mostly being sent by Obama supporters, because it shows that Obama is not i...
Ice Age Redrawn 22 Jan 2006 | 09:22 pm
Last week I complained bitterly about a graph that had all the data, but still failed to effectively tell readers how much CO2 there is in the atmosphere now, compared to previous epochs. By separatin...
Ice Age 15 Jan 2006 | 04:51 am
How much more CO2 is there now, compared with previous peaks in the record? Cutting off the graph below the crucial data point doesn't help us find out.
Test Pattern Retuned 21 Dec 2005 | 03:09 am
All right then. Enough complaining, time for repair. Here's a redrawing of the graph along sane principles.
Test Pattern 15 Dec 2005 | 01:52 am
I feel a little cruel starting with this one but hey, I'm just warming up. May as well make it easy on myself.
