Bubble Chart Critique

B.C. positions approved for foreign workers Many Eyes

This was a chart I found on many eyes that I stumbled across. It was one of the bubble charts that is supposed to show us proportions of jobs compared to each other of unregistered workers in the United States in 2012. There are a lot of negatives to this chart.

The first thing is the lack of any color coding. There are two dots that are colored even though the legend is color coded. Maybe they weren’t done with the chart when they posted it to manyeyes. I am not a fan of the lack of labeling on all of the dots as well. I understand that it may be difficult to put text into the dots but if they were color coded according to the chart it may alleviate the confusion that I got from it. Those are probably my biggest gripes for this particular chart and I hope that they fix them before using this chart in any way.

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