Practice Good Theory Blog Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 I'm not a grammar nazi, nor a stats nazi, but I'm going to rant anyhow... The Chris Matthews show (on MS-NBC) routinely shows statistics in a form that looks like a horizontal bar-chart. The only problem is that the "bars" are always the same length, regardless of the stats. I've noticed this for many months.Don't those look like horizontal bars? The rounding does it for me.The example below is how it should be fixed.Is this illiteracy from MS-NBC, or do they have some strange intent? Here's another example. Why are all the reds, whites and blues the same size? Link to Original Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted March 7, 2013 Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 My vote is laziness or not realizing their method of showing tabulated data resembles a bar chart. Edward Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information covers these issues really well. http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Information/dp/0961392142 softwareNerd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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