It’s a good cause, but the chart badly distorts the data. See my recent March Chart Madness criticism roundup for an explanation (it’s about 2/3 down the page).
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via farm4.static.flickr.comnice, non-overwhelming application of parallel sets.
Yeah, I wish. This is more likely a Sankey Diagram, which is used to indicate flows of energy, money, etc. We might look into using curved lines in the future; we should also figure out a better way of labeling, especially for larger display and/or print. This gets a lot trickier when doing it automatically and for potentially large numbers of categories and combinations.
Combining Parallel Sets/Sankey with bar charts is not a bad idea, but I’m not sure I like the way they do it here. Having the bars vertical would have made more sense to be able to compare them better.
This is so incredibly useless, and at the same time they put so much effort into this, it’s breathtaking. It still looks like a late-90s flight simulator. Watch the other videos to see what other ideas they have, and how entirely uninteresting it is to send an email with their system. 3DMailbox is a real company apparently, and they will sell you their exciting software for $50.
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