329: Telling a Story Right with Data
Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn
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Bar Charts - What's the Analogy There?
Humans do a great job of looking at two people standing back to back and guessing what is the difference in their height. And, and that carries over to the bar chart. We are good at comparing heights and lengths on a flat baseline. So stacked bar charts perform reasonably well for the bars that are on the baseline at the bottom of your chart because they get the flat base. But for all of the, I call it the middle stack syndrome problem, but you know, for all those like, you know, components in the middle, you can't follow a trend in them.
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