How Best to Use Map Data Visualizations

Neal Levene at Simple Complexity take a liking to this “Foreclosure and Bankruptcy in America” infographic (Shown right), and finds that while it’s effective, there is room for improvement.

While I think the original infographic is quite good, I believe the map with numbers provides less insight than either a table or bar graph, however, if you add in some graphical element that allows you to see patterns within the geography, the map can be far superior than the table or bar graphs.

via How Best to Use Map Data Visualizations – US Bankruptcy and Foreclosure Data – Infographic Review — Simple Complexity.

About the Author: Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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