Olympic rings as data symbols

August 3, 2012

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Artist Gustavo Sousa used the Olympic rings as data indicators for statistics like obesity, homicides, and number of billionaires. Each ring represents a continent, and the larger the ring, the larger the value. Simple and an interesting metaphor shift.

6 Comments

  • Olivia — August 3, 2012 at 4:15 pm

    Which ring represents which continent?

    • SBR — August 4, 2012 at 2:13 am

      Didn’t know it at the beginning, but halfway through the animation I was able to guess the colors:

      Red: Americas
      Green: Asia
      Black: Europe
      Yellow: Africa
      Blue: Oceania

  • SM — August 5, 2012 at 3:29 pm

    would have said the same thing. otherwise it was pretty, and pretty straightforward

  • Mark — August 11, 2012 at 7:33 pm

    Interesting how this site is hell-bent to attack Fox News over PERCEIVED inaccuracies, which assume a stupid audience (sounds like bias to me), and ignores the obvious issues with this graphic. Interesting.

  • Joshua Zucker — August 31, 2012 at 9:58 pm

    It looked to me like they were making the radius of the circle correspond to the value of the statistic, which makes the big ones seem *really* big. I think it would have been better to use area instead of radius. Or maybe my perception is wrong.