I applaud the FBI for publishing the number of organizations reporting ransomware events in 2022.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-ransomware-hit-860-critical-infrastructure-orgs-in-2022/

However, I'd prefer the use of a table over any pie or bar chart.

It seems at least two generations of report writers have been brainwashed into thinking that pie and bar charts are somehow useful ways to present information.

Bar charts with numbers for each line at least remove the need for readers to "reverse engineer" values from bar lengths. However, such bar charts end up just being cluttered tables.

On the left is the original table (oddly proceeding from least to most events).

On the right is my reformatting of the data, with a column added for percentage of reports and a total count at the bottom. The headers are probably irrelevant as the values are self-explanatory.

#EdwardTufte #VisualDisplayOfQuantitativeInformation