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On the JMP blog you find a post<\/a> which uses the same data source<\/a> I took for my first attempt to visualize the web of the EU debt<\/a>. I found it hard to really make a point with this data. Looking at the JMP post tells me I wasn’t all too bad. Let’s walk through their visualizations:<\/p>\n One thing that is really not well thought about the graphs are the different color schemes between the graphs.<\/p>\n In the end, I think someone really needs to get “the right” data and show us “the right” visualizations such that we understand what’s going on – but hurry up, Greece might be broke by then …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the JMP blog you find a post which uses the same data source I took for my first attempt to visualize the web of the EU debt. I found it hard to really make a point with this data. Looking at the JMP post tells me I wasn’t all too bad. Let’s walk through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-the-good-the-bad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nCertainly necessary for someone in the US – who knows where Portugal, Spain and Austria are; or was it Australia ..?
\nBut seriously, scaling the very irregular shapes of the countries outline has more problems (on the perceptual side) as benefits.<\/li>\n
\nThis graph degrades the information to a binary information of being creditor or not – be it 1\u20ac or 1,000,000,000\u20ac. The conclusion that Germany and France are in trouble because they lend to many other countries is not convincing as it only reflects their economical power.<\/li>\n
\nAs tree maps are “only” a different representation of a tree, i.e., a hierarchy, why would you visualize a matrix with it? I can’t really \u00a0follow the chain reaction of defaults which is interpreted from this tree map. Looks a bit along the lines “if all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n