Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2006/07 - Gruppe 01 - Aufgabe 2

Poor Graphic

Never Bitten, Twice Shy: The Real Dangers Of Summer

Discussion of the original graphic

First impressions of the design

Bad Data-Ink-Ratio, because of logos and text.
The location of the only axis in the diagram is not making sense. It seems like the first six items are negative in any way.
Order of items? What are the values for x- and y-axis?
The shark-picture is dominant

Detailed analysis of the data

At three Items are missing values, but they are still positioned somewhere
Outliers ??? What to write about them
There are three different dimensions of data in the picture, but where does the trend comes from?

** Odds injury
** Odds death
** Number of Articles

Ordering on x- and y-axis seems to be the odds of injury
No correlation to e.g. Number of articles. What should be the "Fear Index"

Better graphic

After taking a closer look at the data, we found out that the main message of the original graphic is not true. We explored the values with different diagrams. A rising odds injury doesn't always cause a higher number of articels. According to this conclusion we can not show the "fear-risk-ratio" in the same way as the source picture does, but we try to visualize the data in a new diagram. Because of the wide spread of the values, we had to use a logarithmic scale.

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As you can see, there is no clear correlation between the different dimensions.