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good point. i brushed over this fact since the charts were not especially pretty, but your comment helped me focus on how they're inline with content you don't need to jump between graph and description. it reminds me of how sparklines[0] can be used to visualize data in line.

[0] https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...

I like the multi-colour bars in particular— very information dense. The fact that it's all HTML and not an embedded image is so much the better.

Agreed, except for the survey answers. The data presented there is essentially impenetrable, and I am extremely suspicious of the methodology.

To be clear, the discussion of survey free-text answers is based on us (mainly Steve) reading all the text. The goal in the free-text presentations was to show raw data in a useful way for others to look for details.

As I noted in a comment elsewhere on this page, if you have suggestions for how to summarize free-response text in a way that lets the data speak rather than lend itself to cherry-picking, please let us know. I'm certainly open to improved analysis next time.