{"id":233,"date":"2009-11-28T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2009-11-28T20:01:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T18:01:11","slug":"the-good-and-the-bad-chicken-and-egg-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/the-good-and-the-bad-chicken-and-egg-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good and the Bad: chicken and egg problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert has a very long and profound <a href=\"http:\/\/eagereyes.org\/criticism\/cost-of-a-sick-chart\">post<\/a> on this chart:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theusRus.de\/Blog-files\/GE.png\" alt=\"GE Chart by Ben Fry\" width=\"560\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The whole interactive thing can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ge.com\/visualization\/health_costs\/index.html\">here<\/a> on the GE site. It seems to be a bit of a provocation that Ben Fry&#8217;s company uses a tattered pie chart to visualize the data, which is definitely better visualized in a line-chart (i.e., a time series with age as the time axis). There is the suspicion that the radius is proportional to the quantities, which would really take it to the top &#8230;\u00a0Unfortunately we don&#8217;t have the data at hand to give an improved version &#8211; anyone wants to take the burden to note all the values by hand?<\/p>\n<p>Apart from all technical criticism &#8211; which includes the cute animation which is completely useless &#8211; there is the fundamental chicken and egg question:<\/p>\n<p><strong>A good visualization should tell us a story about the data you didn&#8217;t know before and not the other way round, i.e., once you know the story, you create a visualization around it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I actually have a hard time to find a story here at all &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert has a very long and profound post on this chart: The whole interactive thing can be found here on the GE site. It seems to be a bit of a provocation that Ben Fry&#8217;s company uses a tattered pie chart to visualize the data, which is definitely better visualized in a line-chart (i.e., a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","category-the-good-the-bad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}