We live in a curious world don’t we? You may have noticed an RSS feed over there on the right and down a bit to Flowing Data, a really wonderful and inspiring insight into contemporary data analysis. The author of this site, who posts some fantastic visualisations on a very frequent basis, has come in for some flak just recently.
You can read a bit more about it here if you’re interested.
Fortunately, Nathan has lots of allies and lots of great messages of support have come his way in the last couple of days as a result. All I can add to the conversation is that his site, and indeed many others that promote alternate visualisations, provide inspiration and relief to people like me who work in the constrained business world of column and line charts. Occasionally having read one of his posts I break free and try something radical, and encourage others to do the same.
So please keep doing what you’re doing Nathan, and take the remarks as a compliment, the old guard is threatened - the chart is dead, long live the chart.
