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By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:15:29 +0000

I think Tyler’s has a simplictic way of showing the relevant information. I also liked Kevin’s incorporation of the presidential winner into the mix.

By: JulianF

JulianF — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:35:21 +0000

For me it was Tyler first, and then David. Tyler by a nose because of his majority line but hmmmm…the proportional sizes of those bars in David’s efforts are pretty good.
Great effort all, and a very good exercise. Another one please!

Cheers,
Julian F

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By: Robert 'Groby' Blum

Robert 'Groby' Blum — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:42:04 +0000

It really depends on what you want to say with your graph. If you’re going to show that voters have become disenchanted with political parties, yours does by *far* the best job – it’s immediately obvious that both parties are losing to independent/decline to say.

If you want to pitch something to both parties without having to change your slides, pick Amos – neutral title, and by keeping “declined to say” in the middle, it’s easy to show a (potential) majority for either side.

Jorge’s is a great way to show that the state is “ready to turn”.

That’s a question that’s left out surprisingly often in the discussion of graphs – the intended message matters, a lot. There is no “pure data”.

Best advice I ever got at university was “If you’re creating a graph or a statistical analysis, know both what you want to say and the recipient wants to hear”.

By: josh

josh — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:11:50 +0000

That these charts show different things depending on “county” or “voter” as the unit of comparison illustrates how the measure itself could be deceptive. Is “county” even a relevant unit for analysis?

How about a table?

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:41:57 +0000

@charlie… I figured it…

[quote]
Here are the key flaws to the original that you all caught:

1. The x-axis tick marks were in really weird places;
2. The y-axis label was misleading because the data were number of counties;
3. Red and blue would make more sense for Democrats and Republicans;
4. Counts for counties don’t match the years, because they are reversed;
5. We see a different story when we bring in data for undecided “other” and “declined to declare.”

[/quote]

looks like Nathan already pointed it in the top at flaw 4 – says the years were reversed in the original chart..