Thursday, May 13, 2010

A Terrible, Terrible Infographic

This infographic makes me a sad panda. Not only is it really hard to draw any patterns or conclusions across any of the data because of the way it's displayed an organized, the little cutesy text bubbles filled with random facts actually cover up some of the numbers! Plus the reason behind the varying widths of the bars still eludes me (anyone know what variable that's supposed to represent?). This information is certainly fascinating, but would have been far more compelling if only they'd broken it up into three different chunks for eating out, groceries and spending or separated it by region or any other number of ways rather than a big messy tornado of fail.

(via Flowing Data)

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