@Eigenraum Das ist ein exzellentes Beispiel für #ChartJunk!

"The representation of numbers, as physically measured on the surface of the graphic itself, should be directly proportional to the quantities represented." If you try this I'll be curious to know how it goes. #chartjunk

I asked Claude and ChatGPT to react to this chart.

Both initially applauded.

I told them to read Tufte and reconsider.

Both regurgitated Tufteisms but missed the main flaw.

I told them they missed the main flaw.

Finally they got it: The Lie Factor.

"The representation of numbers, as physically measured on the surface of the graphic itself, should be directly proportional to the quantities represented."

If you try this I'll be curious to know how it goes.

#chartjunk

"Eigentlich ist das schon ein sehr schönes Diagramm geworden, aber perfekt wird es erst, wenn ich jetzt jeder farbigen Fläche noch einen Rahmen in einer anderen Farbe gebe!"

So oder so ähnlich muss es gewesen sein, oder?

#ChartJunk #AcademicWriting #ScientificWriting

Die #AIslop Katastrophe wird uns alle bald einholen, zumindest in der Bildung.

Drüben auf LinkedIn feiern 100te Ingenieur*innen dieses von #ChatGPT erstellte Schaubild zu den #MaxwellschGleichungen, das nett aussieht, aber an vielen Stellen doch subtil und dabei entscheidend falsch ist.

Quelle: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kumud-srivastava-886709204_the-story-of-maxwells-equations-easy-mode-activity-7359799320738484224-4aZU

Das Problem ist, dass Leute diesen #Chartjunk unbedarft und ungefiltert glauben, für richtig sowie hilfreich halten und auch noch schick finden.

@HolgerTDittmann @Eigenraum Das ist alles #ChartJunk guter Qualität.

@Eigenraum @sci_photos Vielen Dank, das Diagramm ist auf jeden Fall ein Highlight und ich vermute, dass da in den nächsten Jahren noch sehr viel KI-basierter #Chartjunk auf uns zu kommt.

Der gute Edward Tufte wäre stolz auf diesen Studenten, denn das ist mal #ChartJunk von der allerfeinsten Sorte, der mir hier in einem Projektbericht vorgelegt wurde.
Jedenfalls ist das ziemlich viel Text und Tinte für zwei Zahlen, 60° vs. 120° an Blickwinkel je nach Kameratyp.

One thing LLMs are extremely good at is helping create complex #d3js graphs.

I mean, I wouldn’t ever trust them with actual data analysis, but autocompleting deranged JavaScript is certainly in their wheelhouse and this legit makes using D3 way easier.

#ChartJunk

#FanimeCon may be over, but the anime is here to stay. According to #OpenStreetMap at least, the South Bay is home to the one of the anime shop industries in California and the entire U.S. (Just 3, but who’s counting.)

Anyways…

Come to tonight’s #SouthBayMapNight and catch a walkthrough of https://dashboard.ohsome.org/ and other tools for creating reports and visualizations that aren’t as pretty as this #ChartJunk.

https://www.meetup.com/open-source-san-jose/events/300916414/

A chart shown by my electric utility company. I'm skeptical of your bar graphs, Alliant Energy...

#chartjunk #fail

⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️
https://mastodon.social/@kegill/112405678876309011

@ct_bergstrom

My brain can’t decide if that bar chart over- or under-reflects the opinion differences. I want to see the totals. It feels like #chartJunk. Help me out?

Added: pretty sure the Guardian version (red) under-reflects the differences.

@guardian
Please link to survey questions, totals.

I don't think @EdwardTufte would like the scroll animations that @wapo puts in its pieces about art & visualization https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/ai-image-generation-art-innovation-issue #chartjunk #art #ai #AIart

@marick Back in 2002 I saw Alan Kay give a talk, where he talked about Harvard grads believing that seasons were caused by the Earth being closer/further from the Sun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXb7Oq13pjQ
My thought: maybe you science writers/teachers should stop showing ridiculously exaggerated ellipses for orbits. #ChartJunk
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/AlanKay

@bsmall2 If you are interested in Edward Tufte's work, please have a look at @LabPlot, an open-source and cross-platform application for curve fitting, data visualization and analysis.

You can get Tufte's "Maximal data, minimal ink" theme for various plots in a single click with @LabPlot.

#EdwardTufte #ChartJunk #Data-Ink-Ratio #DataViz #InfoViz #LabPlot

@taosecurity If you are interested in Edward Tufte's work, please have a look at @LabPlot, an open-source and cross-platform application for curve fitting, data visualization and analysis.

You can get Tufte's "Maximal data, minimal ink" theme for various plots in a single click with @LabPlot.

#EdwardTufte #ChartJunk #Data-Ink-Ratio #DataViz #InfoViz #LabPlot

Ahem, Columbia Journalism Review, *none* of those publications are "left-leaning." Do you even understand what the left is these days? Those are centrist, mainstream corporate journalism outlets. The Washington Post is owned by a billionaire, fer chrissakes. "Journalists Remain on Twitter, but Tweet Slightly Less" https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/journalists-remain-on-twitter-but-tweet-slightly-less.php #Chartjunk #Journalism

Gadzooks I just realized that neither #GoogleSheets nor #LibreOffice support any 3D graphing. (though they do offer some fake-3d shadow #ChartJunk yay?)

Wow, I need to keep this as (yet another) example of how to mislead with #datavisualisation, by the #StLouisFed no less: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/23/china-military-spending-st-louis-fed-graph/ (via @gruber ) #chartjunk

Edward Tufte offers two principles for making efficient graphical representations:
- erase non-data-ink, within reason.
- erase redundant data-ink, within reason.

Above all, show the data! Tufte

Do you know that you can get Tufte's "MAXIMAL DATA, MINIMAL INK" theme for plots in a single click with @LabPlot via Theme > Tufte?

Get the project via File > Open Example.

#LabPlot #Tufte #ChartJunk #Data-Ink-Ratio #DataViz #InfoViz #Visualization #CognitiveLoad #Minimalism #Simplicity #OpenSource