Archive for Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Secondary Axes that Work - Proportional Scales
by Jon Peltier
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In my last post, Secondary Axes in Charts, I described an essay by Stephen Few in which he concluded that secondary axes provide no benefit to good infographics. I have come to the same conclusion myself: secondary axes are more likely to confuse and obscure the data, than to clarify relationships in the data.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 under Chart Axes, Charting Principles, Example Charts, Formatting.
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