From: Michael Brady <jbrady-AT-email.unc.edu>
Date: 03 Dec 2007 14:09:42 UTC   (10:09:42 AM in author's locale)
To: The Graphics List <graphics-AT-lists.graphicslist.org>

When I first encountered his work many years ago, I took Tufte's
remarks about good and bad graphs and other graphical displays of
quantitative information very seriously. Often, I see ho-hum graphs,
tedious charts, and the like.

But ESPN uses one graph quite effectively. See, for example:

sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap

Scroll down below the "Game Leaders" table on the right. The next
item is a graph that shows the progress of the score through the
game. The colors of the lines correspond to the teams' main colors
(in this case, Texas is burnt orange and UCLA is blue). And the
vertical line is the halftime mark.

I think this is very effective.

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Michael Brady
www.michaelbradydesign.com


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