AUSTIN KLEON: Thinking critically about “infographics,” “data visualizations,” and other visual junk
A tale of two graphics:
Exhibit A: MetaCritic’s visual chart/scorecard of albums that appeared on Top 10 Lists in 2011. This is a fine, functional chart — it shows you a ranked, hyperlinked list of popular albums this year on Metacritic, showing 3 additional columns of data: # of…
i’m a big fan of mccandless and informationisbeautiful.net but this is a perfect example of “ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
