http://simplecomplexity.net/oil-price-visualization/ Making Simple Sense From Complex Data Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:32:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://simplecomplexity.net/oil-price-visualization/#comment-624 Oil Prices 1999-2008 at Visualizing Economics Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:37:21 +0000 http://simplecomplexity.net/2009/01/09/oil-price-visualization/#comment-624 [...] unsual visualization of oil prices:  Found via SimpleComplexity on Flickr from Whatype Related Posts:U.S. Unemployment verses Europe: March 2009Job Growth: [...] [...] unsual visualization of oil prices:  Found via SimpleComplexity on Flickr from Whatype Related Posts:U.S. Unemployment verses Europe: March 2009Job Growth: [...]

]]> http://simplecomplexity.net/oil-price-visualization/#comment-566 Replacement for an Oil Price Radial Chart | PTS Blog Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:01:31 +0000 http://simplecomplexity.net/2009/01/09/oil-price-visualization/#comment-566 [...] up by a number of blogs and other sites which thought this was a great work of visuaization: Flikr, Simple Complexity, and Occasional Roborant, to name but a [...] [...] up by a number of blogs and other sites which thought this was a great work of visuaization: Flikr, Simple Complexity, and Occasional Roborant, to name but a [...]

]]> http://simplecomplexity.net/oil-price-visualization/#comment-501 Radial bar chart Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:17:07 +0000 http://simplecomplexity.net/2009/01/09/oil-price-visualization/#comment-501 [...] From flickr via SimpleComplexity: [...] [...] From flickr via SimpleComplexity: [...]

]]> http://simplecomplexity.net/oil-price-visualization/#comment-499 Jon Peltier Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:39:47 +0000 http://simplecomplexity.net/2009/01/09/oil-price-visualization/#comment-499 Looks pretty, until you try to actually read it. Then it's no better than the spiro-graph from The Economist, which I deconstructed in <a href="http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/12/23/spiraling-down-the-drain/" title="Spiraling Down the Drain" rel="nofollow">Spiraling Down the Drain</a>. Using a rotational symmetry is even less valid here, because there is no natural repetition in ten years as the Economist chart showed in 12 months. Looks pretty, until you try to actually read it. Then it’s no better than the spiro-graph from The Economist, which I deconstructed in Spiraling Down the Drain. Using a rotational symmetry is even less valid here, because there is no natural repetition in ten years as the Economist chart showed in 12 months.

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