测试可视化_流行测验：这些COVID-19可视化怎么了？

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My professional duties include building data visualizations that a) contain useful information and b) are intuitive to use and interpret. Therefore, it bugs me when I encounter visualizations in the media or on the internet that do not meet these same criteria, and it makes me curious whether other folks see the same problems I do.

我的专业职责包括建立数据可视化，其中a)包含有用的信息，b)使用和解释直观。 因此，当我在媒体或互联网上遇到不符合这些相同条件的可视化图像时，这使我感到烦恼，这使我好奇其他人是否也看到与我相同的问题。

The visualizations below represent COVID-19 confirmed cases versus fatalities for the state of Oregon (where I live), courtesy of mSightly. Pop quiz: what is wrong with them?

下面的可视化表示mVlyly在俄勒冈州(我居住的州)确认的COVID-19确诊病例与死亡人数的关系 。 流行问答：他们怎么了？

1.没有背景的禁令 (1. BANs without context)

BANs (or Big Ass Numbers — it’s an industry term) are useful ways of summarizing and highlighting the most important data in a visualization. These each have two BANs: the top number, representing the total confirmed/fatal cases, and the lower number. What does the lower number represent? Your guess is as good as mine. In fact, if you have a guess, please put it in the comments. I’d love to know. I suspect it represents the total week-over-week change for total confirmed/fatal cases but can find no data to back that up. If it is that, including a plus sign in front of the number seems odd since neither number should ever be negative. I’m pretty sure negative numbers of fatal COVID-19 cases would indicate the beginning of a zombie apocalypse.

BAN(或大屁股数字-这是一个行业术语)是汇总和突出显示可视化中最重要数据的有用方法。 每个都有两个BAN：最高的数字代表已确认/致命的病例总数，而最低的数字代表。 较低的数字代表什么？ 你的猜测和我的一样。 实际上，如果您有任何猜测，请在评论中注明。 我很想知道。 我怀疑这代表已确诊/致命病例的每周总变化，但找不到任何数据可以支持。 如果是这样，在数字前面加上加号似乎很奇怪，因为这两个数字都不应该是负数。 我很确定致命的COVID-19病例为负数将表明僵尸启示的开始。

2.未标记的条 (2. Unlabeled bars)

Compare the graphs of “Total Confirmed Cases” and “Total Fatal Cases.” Are more people dying of COVID-19 this week than catching it? It certainly looks like a possibility. Five of the seven days of data for fatalities are at the maximum level, and only two days of data for confirmed cases match that same level.

比较“确诊病例总数”和“致命病例总数”的图表。 本周死于COVID-19的人比赶上它的人还多吗？ 当然，这似乎是一种可能性。 死亡人数的7天数据中有5天处于最高水平，而确诊病例的数据只有2天与该水平相同。

Except that’s not true. It turns out the two graphs are at very different scales, but you wouldn’t know that from looking at them. If you hover over them on the website, you can see the highest number of confirmed cases is 344, but the highest number of fatal cases is only 4. You could easily create a wild conspiracy theory involving collusion to hide a sudden massive die-off if you don’t look closely here.

除非那不是真的。 事实证明，这两个图的比例尺非常不同，但是从它们的角度您不会知道。 如果将其悬停在网站上，则可以看到确诊病例的最高数量为344，但是致命案例的最高数量仅为4。您可以轻松创建涉及串通的疯狂阴谋理论，以掩盖突然的大规模死亡如果您在这里不仔细看。

3. y轴不包含零 (3. Zero not included on y-axis)

Consider the “Total Confirmed Cases” visualization. What a roller coaster! It appears to have gone from the maximum number of COVID-19 cases on the second and third days to hardly any cases on the sixth. What accounts for such an extreme drop? Did all of the sick people suddenly die? Is there an amazing new vaccine?

考虑“总确诊病例数”可视化。 太过山车了！ 从第二天和第三天的最高COVID-19病例数到第六天几乎没有任何病例。 是什么导致如此急剧的下降？ 所有的病人突然都死了吗？ 有令人惊奇的新疫苗吗？

Or is it that the smallest bar still represents 315 cases? That’s only an 8% drop from the maximum, which is not nearly as severe as the graph appears. As a general rule, bar graphs should always include zero on the y-axis, and this is exactly why — especially given the lack of labels. Had this been designed as a line graph, it would have been less misleading.

还是最小的条仍然代表315箱？ 与最高值相比仅下降了8％，这远没有图表显示的那么严重。 通常，条形图应始终在y轴上包括零，这就是原因-尤其是在缺少标签的情况下。 如果将其设计为折线图，则将减少误导。

4. Unlabeled x-axis

4.未标记的x轴

Elsewhere on the web page, which includes data for every state and not just Oregon, there is this statement:

在网页的其他位置(不仅包括俄勒冈州)还包含每个州的数据，该语句如下：

Data is updated daily at around 6 pm.

每天下午6点左右更新数据。

Notice that it does not indicate the time zone. I took these screenshots at 4:30 Pacific time. So, does the final bar represent yesterday’s data or has it already been updated? Trick question! You don’t know what day I took the screenshots, and there’s nothing in the visualization to tell you. As it happens, I took the screenshots on Friday, July 24, 2020 but I too have no way of knowing the actual date range represented. For all I know, there’s been a delay in data entry and this chart could be days, weeks or even months out of date.

请注意，它不指示时区。 我在太平洋时间4:30拍摄了这些屏幕截图。 那么，最后的柱形代表昨天的数据还是已经更新？ 技巧问题！ 您不知道我截屏的那一天，并且可视化中没有任何内容可以告诉您。 碰巧的是，我在2020年7月24日(星期五)拍摄了屏幕截图，但我也无法知道所代表的实际日期范围。 据我所知，数据输入存在延迟，此图表可能会过几天，几周甚至几个月。

Do you see any other potential problems with these visualizations? Am I being overly critical? Let me know your thoughts!

您还发现这些可视化还有其他潜在问题吗？ 我是否过于挑剔？ 让我知道你的想法！

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翻译自: https://uxdesign.cc/pop-quiz-whats-wrong-with-this-covid-19-visualization-430cb21bd69a

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