{"id":928,"date":"2005-04-01T15:46:34","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T13:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/?p=928"},"modified":"2010-12-23T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T11:38:21","slug":"the-good-the-bad-42005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/the-good-the-bad-42005\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good &#038; the Bad [4\/2005]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Two examples of plotting geographical information.<\/p>\n<p>The first <strong>&#8221;The Bad&#8221;<\/strong> is from &#8221;Informationen zur politischen Bildung, No. 285&#8243; (Information for political education) and gives a very good example how badly human perception works for judging the area of a circle<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"GNP in France\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theusRus.de\/Blog-files\/GNP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"537\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second <strong>&#8220;The Good&#8221;<\/strong> is from the 19th century and shows a map of several kinds of cattle in Bavaria in Germany. The author of this graph uses a quite fancy double overlay to mix the two measures in one map. (Can be found in Howard Wainer&#8217;s &#8221;Visual Revelations&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Cross classification of two sorts of cattle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theusRus.de\/Blog-files\/WainerCattle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two examples of plotting geographical information. The first &#8221;The Bad&#8221; is from &#8221;Informationen zur politischen Bildung, No. 285&#8243; (Information for political education) and gives a very good example how badly human perception works for judging the area of a circle The second &#8220;The Good&#8221; is from the 19th century and shows a map of several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-good-the-bad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}