Imagine this simple data set:
Norway | Denmark | Sweden | |
---|---|---|---|
2004 | 5 | 4 | 13 |
2002 | 8 | 10 | 15 |
Pretty simple, but there is interesting stuff going on. Someone might be trying to reference an individual bit of information, but they also might be looking to compare data, or look at the rate of change of the data over time, all of which are things this data has.
The agency Ferdio created 100 visualizations of that data. Why so many? They can be used to emphasize different parts of the story being told with the data (and some are just… bad.)