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May 20, 2011

Are you a data rock star? If so, strut your stuff for a chance to win an iPad2

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All of the details can be found here.

Enter Now to Win…

It's easy to enter the competition and you could win:

  • Recognition from a panel of industry experts in journalism, data visualization and design
  • Your name and work promoted across the web
  • A proud and noteworthy addition to your portfolio, website or CV
  • A full post profiling you and your work, and the design process you followed
  • A signed copy of Information is Beautiful by David McCandless
  • A brand new iPad2
    It's An Open Brief
    • The competition is based on the data collected by David, and other sources listed within the dataset.  However, you are free to mash up the data with any other source you wish, provided the sources are publicly available and cited in your entry to the competition. 
    • Your visualization can be static, moving or interactive
    • You can include as little or as much text as you like
    • It can be as simple as a single chart or a full-blown infographic
    The Datasets

    You may also find the following resources useful

    And Remember, the Competition Closes at 11pm GMT on Monday 20th June 2011.

    May 11, 2011

    Adding unnecessary precision to bar chart labels

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    Overall, this is a good chart.  But I do have a couple of nitpicky things:

    1. Not sure I like the title.  It’s not how “you” spend your time, but the time of those surveyed.  Maybe something like “Average iPad Usage Time”.
    2. The bar labels on the blue and red bars need to be consistent.  First, they don’t have the same format (blue has two decimal places, red has none).  Second, does the level of precision matter?  Does this chart need to be so specific that people will actually care if web browsing is 37.70% vs. 38%?  I would round to the nearest whole number.
    3. The horizontal scale lines should be more transparent.  I find my eye drawn to the lines because they are so bold.

    What else do you see?