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Junk Charts

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

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

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May 2023 5
Jun 2023 3
Jul 2023 4
Aug 2023 2
Sep 2023 0
Oct 2023 0
Nov 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 7
Jan 2025 3

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Most recent posts

Patiently looking
Voronoi (aka Visual Economist) made this map about service times at emergency rooms around the U.S. This map shows why one shouldn’t just stick state-level data into a state-level map by default. The data are …
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Simple presentations
In the previous post, I looked at this chart that shows the distributions of four subgroups found in a dataset: This chart takes quite some effort to decipher, as does another version I featured. The …
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Two challenging charts showing group distributions
Long-time reader Georgette A. found this chart from a Linkedin post by David Curran: She found it hard to understand. Me too. It's one of those charts that require some time to digest. And when …
On , by junkcharts, 656 words