Comments on: Lots of froth http://blog.bissantz.com/lots-of-froth Bissantz ponders Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:39:13 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Bissantz Ponders | PTS Blog http://blog.bissantz.com/lots-of-froth/comment-page-1#comment-6492 Bissantz Ponders | PTS Blog Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:26:35 +0000 http://blog.bissantz.com/?p=270#comment-6492 [...] but when it is published, it is clear that Bissantz has earned his devil’s horns. In Lots of froth he describes an ill-fated attempt by a business magazine to invent a currency based on cappuccino. [...] […] but when it is published, it is clear that Bissantz has earned his devil’s horns. In Lots of froth he describes an ill-fated attempt by a business magazine to invent a currency based on cappuccino. […]

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://blog.bissantz.com/lots-of-froth/comment-page-1#comment-6484 Jon Peltier Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:04:01 +0000 http://blog.bissantz.com/?p=270#comment-6484 "Lot's of Froth" This description can be applied to lots of data visualizations, which have tons of froth but very little caffeine. What I first noticed about the "small multiples" you showed of the cost of various items in the new "cappucino currency" was that they all looked the same. Each filled the same visual area, and it took a second or third look to realize that the important variable was the number of cappucino cups comprising each page. Interesting that the bar chart shows the data best. Who would have thought? “Lot’s of Froth” This description can be applied to lots of data visualizations, which have tons of froth but very little caffeine.

What I first noticed about the “small multiples” you showed of the cost of various items in the new “cappucino currency” was that they all looked the same. Each filled the same visual area, and it took a second or third look to realize that the important variable was the number of cappucino cups comprising each page.

Interesting that the bar chart shows the data best. Who would have thought?

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