Dataviz: Interactivity Increases Understanding
Maybe 20 years ago I could forgive laziness with data visualizations. After all, the "best" tools of the time weren't nearly as powerful, affordable, and user-friendly as they are today. It's a big emphasis in The Visual Organization and I feel as strongly about it as I did when I first penned the book.
In my analytics course CIS450, I devote an entire class to dataviz midway through the semester. In it, I cover the good, the bad, and the ugly. I conclude the class with an exercise. For about 20 minutes, I let the students find horrible examples of charts and graphs online. (To avoid duplication of efforts, I ban the first ten results of Google.)
Invariably, the students will find something along these lines:
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