(via Flowtown, original page)
Classic make-me-run-my-eyes-around-a-gigantic-thing-to-understand-the-data-ism.
If your chart doesn’t make something EASIER to understand, don’t make a chart. Meanwhile, this splash of information, given key billing on the page, doesn’t even share any information the reader doesn’t know. Kids, the ones who have cell phones, text. Some more than others. The interesting data, “what else do kids do with their cell phones,” is hidden further down the page, albeit in an easier-to-digest bar graph.
