Graphing Religion vs. Politics

Aleks Jakulin:

Via infosthetics, I came across a new and very nice web application for data analysis, Verifiable. Among their featured graphs, there's a very nice one displaying the association between politics and religion:

This graph also shows how the often-hated bar charts can be effective. In all, the graphs coming out of Verifiable look like some of the best I've come across. Previously, I've written about ManyEyes, which is quite versatile and allows many data types, and Swivel, which was among the first. Nicely done.

[Several commenters have pointed out (thanks!) that the selection of colors is not good, and that some religions in the list are very similar, or too small to be interesting. When it comes to selecting good colors, I stand by ColorBrewer.]