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Dario debates Altman
Junk Charts
Data, graphs and AI - by the bestselling author of Numbers Rule Your World and industry veteran, blogging since 2006
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Heard at JSM
On dropping missing data
Yet another way to order pie slices
Helium consumption visualized
Slow thinking required
What is a false positive?
Don't believe your eyes
The truth according to FIFA
Recent AI use cases
Current efficiency and future worry
Drowning in colors
These colors are both empowering and limiting
It's all there, even if you can't see it
Delivering messages in data visualization
Key decisions when making heatmaps
Further comments on the curtailment charts
Hypnotized by seasonlity
But the interesting thing is not here
Making sense of long data sequences
Visualizing football tactics
The greatest nations on earth
How you compare to others
Confirmation bias on display
Choose one of the above
Know your data 49: the risk of story-telling with data
What we learn from another case of mistaken identity
Rearranging deck chairs
A recipe for improving data visualization
The beef on beef
Another chart of prices
With editing power comes responsibility
Using and abusing
Some good bars
Efficient and effective
Updating the unemployment chart
How is the U.S. labor market doing in 2026?
MTA is waking up
Has the consultant apologized yet?
The climate chart that sparks a count v ratio debate
Also the null hypothesis
Pushing U.S. leftward, in a way
A simple edit
The legal status of AI chats and Google docs
Do you think they are private?
Maps of Top X
Exploring a popular way of making maps
Notes on Webby nominees
Which data visualization project is best of the year?
Know your data 48: selling faces
The FTC does not have our backs, that much is clear
The paradox of circles
You can't have it both ways, no you can't
Know your data 48: AI solves missing connections (or not)
AI will connect you to someone far far away
Why only me?
At least he didn't make up a story.
Guide to using pairs of circles
A discussion of some design decisions
Getting metrics right is half the battle
Learning from some student projects
The emerging AI agents war
Amazon kicks it off
Another test of self-sufficiency
Reading an infographic of Swiss elections
Get your automated Junk Charts clone
I'll now haunt you every minute of every day
Numbersense in sports commentary
Does the bad outcome prove the strategy bad?
Beautiful chart to behold
Data visualization circa 1880 from Italy
Coffee machine math
Showing the previous setting to the next user is idiotic
Me on the coffee line
Design, probability and more
As usual, no one's doping
Not me.
Data hunting on the radar (chart)
The data are not where you think they are
Alternatives to radar chart 1
Sometimes, a table is all you need
Snow math
How big businesses snowed in locals
Four reasons to unplug radar charts
Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch
Visualizing hierarchies
Bonus: setting gridlines on a circular chart
How MTA is spending its money
Wow, they found the secret to stopping fare evasion
A cheesy graphic
Which nation makes the most cheese?
Instacart bows to pressure
What is the point of pricing tests if management isn't intending to change prices?
VAR technology is ruining football
Two examples of calls that don't improve the experience
The smell of pie charts
An attempt to deodorize
The failed coup against standardized testing
Why the SAT found its way back in the admissions offices