Good and Bad Examples

Soon, we will have a student-generated list of examples of data visualizations.

The following are good and bad visualizations as found and classified by students.

Good

• BBC Health
• Measles in the US
• More Measles in the US
• Examples on Find and Convert
• Dadaviz about Asian Food
• Obesity Rates
• States affected by same sex marriage ruling
• Declaration of Indepence (and where the signers were from)
• Twitters during soccer game
• World oil usage
• Map of National Parks
• Pizza Chain Geography
• Lines of Code
• Interactive Climate Change Info
• Global map of social networking
• Minard's Map of Napolean's March to Russia
• Tweets during Superbowl
• Height and Weight of NFL Players Over Time
• Subway-type Map of Web Trends
• xkcd's Real life vs. Movies Hazards
• Computer Science Enrollments
• Patriots vs Seahawks by Nate Silver
• Food Consumed in 2010
• Spacecraft mass and capacity measured in horses (xkcd)
• The Most Common Job in Every State (Planet Money)
• California Droughts (xkcd)
• Economic Stress Index
• The Scale of Space
• Flight videos deconstructed
• One Second on the Internet
• Population Pyramid of Russia s

Bad

• Statistics How To
• Spurious Correlations
• WTF Visualizations
• Examples on Gizmodo
• Confusing Pie Chart
• Obesity Rates (not bad, but not as informative as the good one)
• Obesity rates vs Beer consumption
• Unemployment (scroll down to the bottomm for a fairly confusing graph)
• Spiral pie chart
• Shopping in China
• State's musical artist
• Emerging science and technology
• Unintentional Venn Diagram
• Fox New Pie Chart
• Angling for Silverlight
• Causes of Untimely Death
• Fox Bush Tax Cuts
• IPv4 Core
• Public Outrage vs Actual Risk
• Misleading Pie Charts
• Batting Lead-off
• Beauty can be only skin deep
• 3D bar plot
• Anatomy of a good TED talk
• Online in 60 seconds
• 24-Hour Emergency Dentist
• Map of US with too many colors
• Gun deaths in Florida
• Color-coding in black and white

Galleries of examples

Here are a few sites that talk about good and bad visualizations of data.

• Gallery 1: York University
• Smashing Magazine
• Econoclass
• Infographics at Dadaviz