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Specialty plots

An overused chart, why it fails, and how to fix it
Spider chart

An overused chart, why it fails, and how to fix it

A chart with conceptual appeal but fails the data
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High-effort graphics
return on effort

High-effort graphics

What's the return on effort?
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Guess which day I made this chart
Aggregation

Guess which day I made this chart

ESPN Magazine issued a special analytics edition to ride the Moneyball bandwagon.
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The cross-hairs of religions
Color

The cross-hairs of religions

Long-time reader Nick B. found this attractive flow chart. The chart was
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Energy- and search-efficient
Clustering

Energy- and search-efficient

At our recent NYU talk, Dona Wong presented a graphic that her
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Untangling Europe's debt web
Business

Untangling Europe's debt web

A number of blogs have hailed this NYT diagram/chart/infographic as
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