Transparency: The Most Homicidal Countries
- Posted by: GOOD , Chris Korbey
- on October 27, 2009 at 11:00 am
With Halloween around the corner, the idea of being stabbed by a deranged murderer is at the front of our minds. Our latest transparency is a look at where in the world are you most likely to be murdered and which countries have the lowest homicide rates.
Via the Guardian Data blog. To see the full list, go here.
A collaboration between GOOD and Chris Korbey.
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DISCUSSION: 2 Comments
Although the use of the yellow tags to indicate (on the X axis) murder rates is very clever, I have a lot of problems with this an as infographic. It doesn’t plot the whole range of murder rates across all countries, so you can’t see the
context. The horizontal position is not linearly related to the murder
rates. There’s some sort of implication that the depth of the tag in the image (or
the size of the tag) is meaningful, but it’s not. I think the idea could have been done well, but as it is, it’s very misleading.
I agree entirely with HarlanH, this infographic is terrible from the standpoint of imparting useful information. Other than the fact that the numbers generally grow larger as you go from left to right all the relationships between the elements in the image are irrelevant.In order for an infographic to be more useful than a simple table of numbers the relationships between the elements must be meaningful, they must add to the information so that it is more than the sum of its parts. This infographic is so poor that it actually obscures what tiny bits if information it does contain.Bleh.