Makeover Monday: Which States have invested the most per home in wind energy?

• The States are sorted from most installed capacity to least.
• The title clearly indicates what the chart is about.

• The log scale is misleading.
• The colors are double encoding the data.
• The windmill symbols are chart junk.
• The labels for the Stated get smaller and smaller, to the point where you can hardly read them.
• The investment labels are not consistently formatted, they are aligned on an angle, then vertically, and they get smaller and smaller.

What I did

• Since this is a simple data set, I wanted to use a tool other than Tableau. I find this useful so that I can speak about other tools from an educated perspective.
• Create a simple viz
• Look at the relationship between installed capacity and development
• Consider metrics that normalize the data