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Animated GIF by Jared Wilber |
Given my interest in methods of depicting uncertainty, I've often wondered why this type of rough, fuzzy style isn't explored more often. I have the hunch that graphics based on conventional geometric shapes with sharp boundaries such as dots, bubbles, lines, or bars may sometimes give readers a misleading impression of complete precision, when the truth is that most point estimates we represent in our visualizations are surrounded by clouds of uncertainty. Perhaps charts that look imperfect may suggest that the data they're based on isn't perfect either.