the anti experience of Ed

Admittedly, I’m a chart geek. I have copies of all the relevant Tufte books. I feel that I know a deceptive or misleading chart when I see one.
Let’s look at this one at cnn.com, about obesity rates in the US.

At first glance, I noted, damn, look at the red, the south sure is […]

[Read more →]

Ever since first playing SimEarth on my Gateway 2000 486/66, I’ve loved James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis. He recently wrote another book named The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back - and How We Can Still Save Humanity which I recently looked at picking up at amazon.com, which I’ve been using alot lately […]

[Read more →]