500,000 dots is too many

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Excerpt:

The more I think about today’s front page of the New York Times, the more it is for me another watershed moment for data visualization. But not for good reasons.

This graph is confronting us with the limitations of data visualization to convey tragedies.

Author(s): Francis Gagnon

Publication Date: 21 February 2021

Publication Site: Chez Voila