A humorous infographic about the relationship between data visualization and color, particularly rainbows. It features various graph types, including bar charts, pie charts, scatter plots, and intensity maps, all emphasizing the importance of color in making data more engaging. The cartoon humorously suggests that using rainbows improves data presentation, even when readability is compromised.
Creation date
2015-07-29AltText
An infographic humorously showing how adding rainbows to graphs improves them, with bar, pie, scatter, and intensity charts.Transcript
How to make your data more fabulous
Data and colour have a special relationship.
Graph:
Enjoyment of graph
Number of colours
“Oooo it’s like a rainbow!”
The ‘brown’ point
“Eww”
The optimum amount of colour in a graph is ‘Rainbow’. All graphs benefit from added rainbows.
BARCHART
How well the subject goes with rainbows
University, Engineering, Mathematics, Biology, Physics, Unknownology
PIE!
People who are colour blind
People who like RAINBOWS
SCATTER
Need to get closer to rainbow
Distance from real rainbow
INTENSITY
Teddy bear scan (height)
Teddy bear scan (width)
Concentration of Cthulhu
Even when you are stuck with black and white printing you can still use rainbows.
Graph:
Frequency of colour rainbows
Infographic length
Some people claim that rainbows are distracting. But we were too busy looking at rainbows to care.
Graph:
How unreadable your graph is
Number of rainbows
