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The visualization is for a comparative analysis between the top 15 firms in the US and China Markets by revenue.
What works well?
• Helps identify the distribution of revenue among these companies for each country.
• Names of the firms do indicate how the largest firms in the Chinese markets are owned by the State whereas the largest firms in the US markets are not state-owned, giving a hint about the different political philosophies in both countries.
• Revenue figures are presented in the same currency units helping compare the firms.
• Provides trivia about 2 firms to give a sense of its strength.
What does not work well?
• Difficult to compare the revenue of firms at the same rank in each country although there are light gray colored rings that help in comparison but their color blends into the background.
• The distortion in the bar width and placement around the circle makes it difficult to compare linearly.
• Aggregate revenue of the firms could be mentioned.
• Difficult to judge if the height of the bar must be measured from the center of the disc or the circumference.
What could be better?
• The operating sector of each firm could be mentioned indicating top industries that generate these revenues.
• The color scheme has a very strong contrast and it would be uncomfortable for someone to observe information with multiple visualizations with the same template, some lighter color schemes would have made it easier to use.
• The baseline from where the bars are produced could be on a straight line allowing easier observations.
Image URL The visualization is for a comparative analysis between the top 15 firms in the US and China Markets by revenue.
What works well? • Helps identify the distribution of revenue among these companies for each country. • Names of the firms do indicate how the largest firms in the Chinese markets are owned by the State whereas the largest firms in the US markets are not state-owned, giving a hint about the different political philosophies in both countries. • Revenue figures are presented in the same currency units helping compare the firms. • Provides trivia about 2 firms to give a sense of its strength.
What does not work well? • Difficult to compare the revenue of firms at the same rank in each country although there are light gray colored rings that help in comparison but their color blends into the background. • The distortion in the bar width and placement around the circle makes it difficult to compare linearly. • Aggregate revenue of the firms could be mentioned. • Difficult to judge if the height of the bar must be measured from the center of the disc or the circumference.
What could be better? • The operating sector of each firm could be mentioned indicating top industries that generate these revenues. • The color scheme has a very strong contrast and it would be uncomfortable for someone to observe information with multiple visualizations with the same template, some lighter color schemes would have made it easier to use. • The baseline from where the bars are produced could be on a straight line allowing easier observations.