Comments on: Close Reading Data Visualizations http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2010/03/close-reading-data-visualizations.html Learning in Libraries and Loving It Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Iris http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2010/03/close-reading-data-visualizations.html/comment-page-1#comment-2806 Iris Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:32:01 +0000 http://pegasuslibrarian.com/?p=1340#comment-2806 Oh, excellent points! Oh, excellent points!

]]> By: Megan http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2010/03/close-reading-data-visualizations.html/comment-page-1#comment-2804 Megan Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:38:54 +0000 http://pegasuslibrarian.com/?p=1340#comment-2804 My challenge with that graphic was related to the gender icons. (And not the gender-binary aspect of the blue/pink characters, although that chapped my hide as well.) What I mean is that you have a column that is 4 figures wide by some number of figures tall. The "boy" figures were always on the bottom, so you could easily judge boy figures against boy figures without even paying attention to the "girl" figures. To be able to visualize the girl figures against the girl figures, you've got to drill down one more level. I wish it was possible to transpose the boy/girl figures on those graphs, which would allow you to easily compare girls v. girls or boys v. boys, all while still visualizing the ratio between girls and boys. My challenge with that graphic was related to the gender icons. (And not the gender-binary aspect of the blue/pink characters, although that chapped my hide as well.) What I mean is that you have a column that is 4 figures wide by some number of figures tall. The “boy” figures were always on the bottom, so you could easily judge boy figures against boy figures without even paying attention to the “girl” figures. To be able to visualize the girl figures against the girl figures, you’ve got to drill down one more level. I wish it was possible to transpose the boy/girl figures on those graphs, which would allow you to easily compare girls v. girls or boys v. boys, all while still visualizing the ratio between girls and boys.

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