Playing with the Shape of Data

[Visio Guy]

Okay, all you visual-perception, goatee-stroking philosophers out there, let me know what you think!

Playing with the Shape of Data

[geh_heim]

it really is way more obvious if you use bars instead of circles...

i never thought much about that but it shows once again that a different presentation may give a totally different feeling about the same data. (man i really am happy that i'm not into marketing    )

i think that is cause the radius only doubles when the area is 4times as big. so it seems there is not that much of a difference when using circles. maybe numbers of unemployed should be shown that way? would be mor positive ^^

[Yacine]

It gets even worse if you add the 3rd dimension.
Note also the influence of the font size.

[Yacine]

I noticed also that you were speaking about circles. The first view seems to reflect much more the real proportion.
That's worth a deeper study, to find a factor like for the perceived luminicence of colors.