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Kaiser Fung's blog. Recycling chartjunk as junk art. Data visualization criticism.

  • By Kaiser Fung
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly two posts per week
  • First post on

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May 2023 5
Jun 2023 3
Jul 2023 4
Aug 2023 2
Sep 2023 0
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Jan 2024 0
Feb 2024 3
Mar 2024 5
Apr 2024 1
May 2024 3
Jun 2024 4
Jul 2024 4
Aug 2024 4
Sep 2024 2
Oct 2024 2
Nov 2024 3
Dec 2024 5

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Most recent posts

The canonical U.S. political map
The previous posts feature the canonical political map of U.S. presidential elections, the vote margin shift map. The following realization of it, made by NBC News (link), drills down to the counties with the largest …
On , by junkcharts, 675 words
Gaining precision by deleting data
The title is a bit of a paradox, isn't it? When we want more precise knowledge about something, we want to gather more data, at greater granularity. But it's not that simple. Here is the …
On , by junkcharts, 221 words
Dot plots with varying dot sizes
In a prior post, I appreciated the effort by the Bloomberg Graphics team to describe the diverging fortunes of Japanese and Chinese car manufacturers in various Asian markets. The most complex chart used in that …
On , by junkcharts, 752 words