Sunday 8 September 2019

Ofcom's media nations report: Bar chart epic fail

As a designer of interactive visualisations you have great power and great responsibility to stop the user from doing stupid things. Whoever put Ofcom's media nations report together on Power BI, left the option to the user to tick plotting the responses to multiple questions, with the percentages going well above 100%. I'm not familiar enough with Power BI to know if this is the fault of the software rather than the designer.
And the magic setting producing the magic plot (one of the questions only has answers for 2018-2019

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