What is wrong with the above graph? In some ways, not too much, it's a very common way of presenting population by age by sex. But one of the most interesting datapoints that can be revealed by the graph is the ratio of genders in a particular age band. It is almost impossible for the human eye to discerd this as the bars are not next to each other. A more sensible approach is below. Why has such an efficient method become the standard?
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Population by age by sex
What is wrong with the above graph? In some ways, not too much, it's a very common way of presenting population by age by sex. But one of the most interesting datapoints that can be revealed by the graph is the ratio of genders in a particular age band. It is almost impossible for the human eye to discerd this as the bars are not next to each other. A more sensible approach is below. Why has such an efficient method become the standard?
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