Today I was reading Apples Supplier Responsibility and saw this masterpiece of visual lies!
The caption underneath the figure says
“As of December 2009, Apple has audited 190 facilities located in China, the Czech Republic,….”
Maybe suggesting they’re trying to show the combined total, with a yearly split? Whatever the intention was, the chart is poor, here’s what it might have looked like (not even stacked)
Which, I think, does show a slightly different story to the first chart. I’m not sure why the colours are different either, and I can live with out the roundness, here’s what I would have done….(I would even of gone back and added the “s”!)
So there you go, even the mighty Apple get it wrong sometimes… even if it is deliberately on purpose ;-).
They’re too busy reaming the poor chap who lost their iPhone 4 prototype….
[...] It’s horrifying to see that some people are creative enough to generate things such as this [...]
I’m guessing the overlap between the bars is meant to show facilities that were audited in more than one year, given that the 3 yearly figures sum to 224, not 190. The two overlapping portions look like they’re about 15 and 20 units wide, which would make sense (i.e. the “total facilities audited in one or more years” would be equal to about 190). I agree there would be better ways to show this though!