Eight articles explaining why the y axis of a chart shouldn’t (necessarily) start at 0.
Home is where the data art is
Data visualisation, data art and the law of large numbers.
Political parties, parliamentary predictions and pie-chart perception
Is a pie chart an appropriate visualisation choice for showing the make-up of the UK’s House of Commons after the 2015 general election?
Communicating changes in rank over time: bumps charts and slopegraphs
Ideas concerning the tracking of carbon dioxide emission rankings through time.
Multiple small multiples
A look at different options for the scaling of axes in small multiples.
Improving on a pair of pie charts
A brief discussion about perceptual problems associated with pie charts and some suggested alternatives to using a pair of pie charts to show the composition of a whole at two different points in time. Uses data from an International Energy Agency report.