From Information Aesthetics comes this entry about how McDonalds in Europe visualized nutrition data. A few people have already made insightful comments over there. I find the use of colors a bit gratuitous. The choice of mapping colors to nutrient groups rather than to coverage of the daily amounts is odd. This is a good attempt, a definite improvement upon the usual data table, but certainly not the last word.
Information Aesthetics is a great blog that discusses data graphics that are much higher-end and complex than the ones seen here. Well worth a read!
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I don't think the colors are too bad. I'm of course assuming the different colors actually mean something and that there's a legend that's placed right next to the chart. Definitely an improvement on the regular charts.
p.s. i was really happy to see blogs like this and information aesthetics in existence...any others?
Posted by: Nathan | Mar 15, 2006 at 12:28 AM