Today i present a very clear solution of how to present complex, multidimensional political data in a way easily to comprehend: A project created by arte, a french-german public-service broadcaster. Actually, it is not a single graphic but an quasi-interactive collection of several. Use your arrow keys or mousecursor to navigate between them. This not only enables to distribute the high amount of data and to decrease density. It also allows to compare the values of the variables of the presented states immediately. The signal colour red is used to indicate the country you are informing about, as well as in the bar on the right to indicate the recent variable (from the term of office of the head of state to the GINI-Index). Red also serves to stress the manifestations of the variables of the single countries. Other colours besides red and grey rarely are applied. Decoration is used sparely in a kind of Pop art style. In contrast, the varierty of implemented graphics is high: Bar charts, radar charts, pie charts, pyramids ans so on. They are applied properly, depending on the amount of levels of the variables. The last page contains a summary and causes a little bit of redundancy.
Graphic source: http://ilovedemocracy.arte.tv/de/
