Chris “last author” Zorn points us to this, commenting: “Too many pie charts, but aside from that…”
3 thoughts on “Exemplary statistical graphics”
As the writer himself says, he only just "learned how to make graphs in Excel this afternoon", and it sort of shows. For the real masters, go see the original (uncredited in that article).
There's an intro statistics assignment in here somewhere…
There is a book (I think 1964) by Roberto Bachi called Graphical Rational Patterns in which he proposes a type of icon that can visually represent numbers over several orders of magnitude. If such an icon was used as a plotting symbol when there are large numbers of overlapping points the resulting picture is likely to work at least as well as Anthony's versions and be decodable to boot.
As the writer himself says, he only just "learned how to make graphs in Excel this afternoon", and it sort of shows. For the real masters, go see the original (uncredited in that article).
There's an intro statistics assignment in here somewhere…
There is a book (I think 1964) by Roberto Bachi called Graphical Rational Patterns in which he proposes a type of icon that can visually represent numbers over several orders of magnitude. If such an icon was used as a plotting symbol when there are large numbers of overlapping points the resulting picture is likely to work at least as well as Anthony's versions and be decodable to boot.