Reference page for Trifecta Checkup

It's here! Many readers have requested a reference to the Junk Charts Trifecta Checkup. I finally found time to write this up. Here is the introduction:

The Junk Charts Trifecta Checkup is a general framework for data visualization criticism. It captures how I like to organize the thinking behind my critique pieces.

The need for such a framework is clear. Opinion pieces on specific data graphics frequently come across as stream of conscience. Proclaiming a chart "mind-blowing" or "worst of the century" isn't worth much if the author cannot articulate why. The state of dataviz criticism has not progressed further than assembling a set of "rules of thumb".

In putting this framework together, I aimed to make it simple to use and broadly applicable.

The Trifecta Checkup framework allows me to classify all dataviz critiques into eight types. A visualization of the eight types is as follows.

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As usual, clicking on the "Trifecta Checkup" tag brings up all prior posts that apply the concept.