Have you read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information? Yeah, me too. It’s great, isn’t it? I found it really kicked me over the edge in appreciating the capabilities of getting information across to people in graphs.
Now, the graph below breaks a whole bunch of rules: way too much ink, and.. hello!… what’s that spurious bell curve doing there? But it’s still one hell of a useful diagram.
What I love about the diagram is the way it allows you to hunt-and-peck regions to find boards you might want to try out. For example, it tells me that I need to be over to the left next time I try any boards out.
The diagram is called The Positioniser(TM) and is from last year’s Document Snowboard magazine’s Ultimate Gear Guide supplement (it’s my second favourite snowboard magazine, after Snowboard UK, but the supplement rocks).