Circular areas offer misleading cues of their underlying data
Same data + same chart form = same story. Maybe.

Making graphics last over time

Yesterday, I analyzed the data visualization by the White House showing the progress of U.S. Covid-19 vaccinations. Here is the chart.

Whgov_proportiongettingvaccinated

John who tweeted this at me, saying "please get a better data viz".

I'm happy to work with them or the CDC on better dataviz. Here's an example of what I do.

Junkcharts_redo_whgov_usvaccineprogress

Obviously, I'm using made-up data here and this is a sketch. I want to design a chart that can be updated continuously, as data accumulate. That's one of the shortcomings of that bubble format they used.

In earlier months, the chart can be clipped to just the lower left corner.

Junkcharts_redo_whgov_usvaccineprogress_2

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