Political plots
Last week the Independent Panel on Canada's Future Role in Afghanistan released its report. The full report is available here. The basic message? Stay the course: Canadian soldiers should stay in Afghanistan well into the future. The argument is propped up by the usual noble words—and a few ignoble graphs, two of which I've shown here.
The graph below shows Afghan's opinions about the direction in which their country is moving:
Comments both graphical and political would be most welcome!
Labels: Afghanistan, Canada, graphs, Independent Panel on Canada's Future Role in Afghanistan, John Manley
posted by Nick Barrowman at 2:20 PM
2 Comments:
To continue the LOLstats theme in your (later) entry, the first graph should be captioned
INVISIBLE ORIGIN
and the second
MY 3D GRAPHICS SOFTWARE--LET ME SHOW YOU IT
:-)
Good idea! I think I'd name the first one:
PROJECTION DECEPTION
or, how about:
ORIGINAL SIN
As for the second, aside from the 3D, which is quite distracting, the graph is ok. (I'm glad they didn't stack the right/wrong/mixed bars.) Mixing different data sources is perhaps problematic. So I would title it
MIXING RIGHT AND WRONG
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