That infographic would have been much better as a regular table, instead of this circular thing. It seems to me as if it is not intended to be actually used, only to look nice.
It’s a dreadful graphic. No information leaps out at the viewer, you have to hunt through two tables for the meanings of the letters and numbers. It takes an effort to find the letter for any given block, or to find the block for any given letter, in radii far from where the letters appear. It’s difficult to tell apart yellow and gold, or grey and silver: the key only serves to highlight how indistinguishable the colours are.
And since this graphic does not work, I cannot see it as beautiful. It is an ugly sacrifice of function to superficial prettiness.
Agreed. I wish they’d stick to calling hard-to-read graphics like this ‘visualizations’ - the word ‘infographics’ implies a graphic designed to efficiently display information.
The worst part is it wouldn’t be hard to improve the graphic. They could drop the annoying 84-item list and just directly write the emotions in the 84 slots around the circle instead of using numbers. Enlarge the circle and blow up the font size a bit—then they can put the A to J list of cultures into the empty middle of the circle so you don’t have to keep looking off the side to cross-reference it. That’d help, even if it wouldn’t fix it.
Edit—I see that when they used that infographic as their book’s cover, they gave up on the idea of making it a real infographic and just made it into a pretty flower!
That infographic would have been much better as a regular table, instead of this circular thing. It seems to me as if it is not intended to be actually used, only to look nice.
It’s a dreadful graphic. No information leaps out at the viewer, you have to hunt through two tables for the meanings of the letters and numbers. It takes an effort to find the letter for any given block, or to find the block for any given letter, in radii far from where the letters appear. It’s difficult to tell apart yellow and gold, or grey and silver: the key only serves to highlight how indistinguishable the colours are.
And since this graphic does not work, I cannot see it as beautiful. It is an ugly sacrifice of function to superficial prettiness.
Agreed. I wish they’d stick to calling hard-to-read graphics like this ‘visualizations’ - the word ‘infographics’ implies a graphic designed to efficiently display information.
The worst part is it wouldn’t be hard to improve the graphic. They could drop the annoying 84-item list and just directly write the emotions in the 84 slots around the circle instead of using numbers. Enlarge the circle and blow up the font size a bit—then they can put the A to J list of cultures into the empty middle of the circle so you don’t have to keep looking off the side to cross-reference it. That’d help, even if it wouldn’t fix it.
Edit—I see that when they used that infographic as their book’s cover, they gave up on the idea of making it a real infographic and just made it into a pretty flower!