Data visualisation: in defence of bad graphics
Simon Rogers asks on The Guardian’s DataBlog if there is a backlash gathering steam against web data visualisations.
“There has definitely been a shift. A few years ago, the only free data visualisation tools were clunky things that could barely produce a decent line chart, so the explosion in people just getting on and doing it themselves was liberating. Now, there’s a move back towards actually making things look, er, nice.”
