Alberto Cairo called out this crappy Fox News chart the other day and solicited remakes:
In case you missed it: Trumpian data visualization https://t.co/UBFcgLK6LV #dataviz #infographics #dataJournalism pic.twitter.com/IFFnL8fYop
— Alberto Cairo (@albertocairo) August 2, 2016
He collected the resulting submissions in a blog post. One submission that caught my eye was Catherine Mulbrandon’s. This submission has some shading and a fair amount of annotation on it, both of which showcase Playfair’s talents. It also serves as a simple example of how to create a line graph with two series.
In response to Trump's GDP chart @albertocairo collected other GDP graphs https://t.co/Gyb4AwXuNU Here is mine… pic.twitter.com/buea1kA4xC
— Catherine Mulbrandon (@VisualEcon) August 1, 2016
I re-created the graph in Playfair and recorded the process for YouTube. Unlike my previous YouTube of the fivethirtyeight graph, I talk in this one, and hopefully it’s a bit easier to follow if you want to learn to use Playfair. This tutorial, along with my first blog post on Playfair and the text tutorial, should provide a good entry point to making graphs in Playfair. Here’s the video:
