Infographic: Laundry by family member

Data visualisation is difficult to do correctly, but this one just sort of fell out while I was sorting the family’s laundry:

This sort of graphical representation is easy to do improperly, the most common offence being to scale on more than one axis, causing the area to confusingly increase at a much greater rate than the underlying data:

Here I demonstrate just one of many ways in which the graph can be manipulated to mislead the eye and thus the viewer.

Edward Tufte would still dislike my original graphic: there’s too much “chart junk” in the background. Move that pillow!