Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Do you enjoy looking at graphs?

I saw a graph made from age distribution data from the Census Bureau at Economist's View. It's a pretty cool chart. Except for the fact that the default Excel coloring and labellings are uglier than sin.



Excel has some incredible visualization capabilities if you know how to use them. I thought that such interesting presentation of interesting data should not go to waste so I produced my own version also in Excel:

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It's like geological strata on the side of the highway.

1 comments:

Fr. said...

Very good remix, indeed–but since the difference between adjacent age groups is hard to grasp here, I would personally recode the data to divide the number of strata by three, and show a less complex but more readable graph.