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Martin Modrák Feb 27, 2024

A nice little paper arguing that Chord diagrams are generally harder to understand than Sankney plots for the same data. Relevant for when people will next request the "nice circular diagrams" for a bioinformatics analysis: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3544548.3581119
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Showing Flow: Comparing Usability of Chord and Sankey Diagrams | Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Dan Neuman 🇨🇦

@modrak_m Those are great example supporting the thesis. The Chord diagram seems to distort relative values, too.

An economist on Twitter was promoting their "donut economics" idea which was really just a multi-layer pie chart with a hole in it. It didn't seem to be more useful than a bar chart, while making it harder to compare values.

Choosing the right chart style is important. Clarity is more important than novelty.