Hi Kaolee,
You summarized your articles pretty well and focused on the main points. Based on your articles, I have a few questions;
1) In the first article, Wainer talked about the use of wider-than-high format and mentioned that Tufte usually adopted the higher-than-wide format? Did the article talk about the difference between these two formats?
2) Was the use of bar chart to improve the pie chart an example of how to incorporate the wider-than-high format? Can we also use the dot plot instead of the pie chart?
3) In the second article, the log scale was used and a plot of log(death rate) as a function of age was given. What was the purpose of the log transform? If it’s to linearize the data, does taking logs always linearize the data?
Have a good break, Kaolee!!
Chloe Wentzlof
Kaolee,
Your presentation was concise, but still summarized the articles well. I enjoyed reading your thoughts about each article, as you brought up some good points. The first articles highlighted the advancements in integrating figures and text.
1. The article was written in 1991. I would be interested in knowing what are the advancements for when the article was written to now? Packages like ggplot2 makes including text within plots extremely easy. Did Wainer predict any of these future advancements?
2. I would have liked to see the “pie chart example” you referenced when explaining the “wider than high” format. You mentioned this part of the article was confusing and need more explanation. Did Wainer mention this formatting was conditional on the material? There are plenty tables or charts where the data is longer than wide, which would contradict this formatting suggestion. I would be intrigued to see how Wainer would explain this.
For the second article, you referenced an example of plotting simple and complex data and how readers can misinterpret graphs. I would have liked to see the visuals of these examples.
3. Were there any techniques that we learned throughout this course that would have improved these examples and made them easier to interpret? Did the graphs exhibit any traits that we learned to make graphs unclear or confusing?
Overall, I enjoyed reading through your presentation. Hope you enjoy your break!
Chloe
Hi Kaolee,
You summarized your articles pretty well and focused on the main points. Based on your articles, I have a few questions;
1) In the first article, Wainer talked about the use of wider-than-high format and mentioned that Tufte usually adopted the higher-than-wide format? Did the article talk about the difference between these two formats?
2) Was the use of bar chart to improve the pie chart an example of how to incorporate the wider-than-high format? Can we also use the dot plot instead of the pie chart?
3) In the second article, the log scale was used and a plot of log(death rate) as a function of age was given. What was the purpose of the log transform? If it’s to linearize the data, does taking logs always linearize the data?
Have a good break, Kaolee!!
Kaolee,
Your presentation was concise, but still summarized the articles well. I enjoyed reading your thoughts about each article, as you brought up some good points. The first articles highlighted the advancements in integrating figures and text.
1. The article was written in 1991. I would be interested in knowing what are the advancements for when the article was written to now? Packages like ggplot2 makes including text within plots extremely easy. Did Wainer predict any of these future advancements?
2. I would have liked to see the “pie chart example” you referenced when explaining the “wider than high” format. You mentioned this part of the article was confusing and need more explanation. Did Wainer mention this formatting was conditional on the material? There are plenty tables or charts where the data is longer than wide, which would contradict this formatting suggestion. I would be intrigued to see how Wainer would explain this.
For the second article, you referenced an example of plotting simple and complex data and how readers can misinterpret graphs. I would have liked to see the visuals of these examples.
3. Were there any techniques that we learned throughout this course that would have improved these examples and made them easier to interpret? Did the graphs exhibit any traits that we learned to make graphs unclear or confusing?
Overall, I enjoyed reading through your presentation. Hope you enjoy your break!
Chloe