![]() In an analytical setting such as a business informatics dashboard, I take a pretty hard line on this distinction. Visual flair is fine in its place, as long as it doesn’t interfere with the job of a chart in this context: to support a user task. If adding some visual interest doesn’t conflict with the primary purpose of the chart, then I’m all for it. If you’ve read my previous article, you already know how I feel about fun in data vis. ![]() If you look at the chart closely, you will see that it contains exactly the same data as the (much more readable) stacked bar chart, but the requester was feeling pressured by a client to add the rose diagram to the dashboard because it needed to be more “fun.” The person requesting the review called the chart a rose diagram based on the name in their software library, but I don’t believe that they used an area encoding, so I think it is actually just a stacked pie chart stretched around a circle, and not an actual rose diagram. ![]()
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