Because you can — a new series of data visualization rants

Illustration: a cute dog

Here’s an old joke:

Q: Why do dogs lick their balls?
A: Because they can.

Canine behavior aside, the fact that you can do something doesn’t mean that you should to it. I already wrote about one such example, when I compared between chart legends to muttonchops.

Citing myself:

Chart legends are like Muttonchops — the fact that you can have them doesn’t mean you should.

Stay tuned and check the because-you-can tag.

Featured image by Unsplash user Nicolas Tessari

By Boris Gorelik

Machine learning, data science and visualization http://gorelik.net.

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