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Hengngh, the one I clipboarded out of a PDF of the front page didn't make it past the IntenseDebate size police, and it's not on the Web version of the article. Here it is:
<img src="http://i67.tinypic.com/vsnmfp.png">
Circular areas indicating linear quantities? Ridiculous qualifiers to make the data show what you want them to show? Kid stuff, NYT.
Hengngh, the one I clipboarded out of a PDF of the front page didn't make it past the IntenseDebate size police, and it's not on the Web version of the article. Here it is:
<img src="http://i67.tinypic.com/vsnmfp.png">
Circular areas indicating linear quantities? Ridiculous qualifiers to make the data show what you want them to show? Kid stuff, NYT.
This is how you do chartjunk:
<img src="http://americanmoocher.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/military-spending.png">