3rd February, 2021
Chapter nine of “The Data Detective” / “How To Make The World Add Up” is all about data visualisation – its power, and its pitfalls. The overarching story is about how one woman launched a public health revolution, armed with a fancy pie chart.
I’m fond of the chapter – but how does it look to audiobook listeners? Ah. Obviously the pictures in the audiobook are… well, nonexistent.
So here are links to the graphics in question.
First, Nigel Holmes’s famous – infamous? – graphic, ‘Diamonds
were a girl’s best friend‘, produced for Time magazine in 1982 and still debated among dataviz geeks today.