@adammontville [posited](http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/it-security-data-protection/quick-thoughts-on-verizons-dbir-and-20-critical-security-control-mappings/) that Figure 15 from this year’s [DBIR](http://www.verizonenterprise.com/DBIR/2013/) could use some slopegraph love. As I am not one to back down from a reasonable challenge, I obliged.
Here’s the original chart (produced by @jayjacobs):
and, here’s a _very_ _quick_ slopegraph version of it:
You can click on both/either for a larger version. If I had more time, I could have made the slopegraph version nicer, but it conveys a story fairly well the way it is, especially with the highlight on the two biggest changes between 2008 & 2012.
Two problems with the modified visualization are (a) multi-column slopegraphs blend into a [parallel coordinate](http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/parallel-coordinates/) or plain old line graph pretty quickly (thus, reducing their slopegraph-y goodness); and, (b) the diversity of the year-over-year DBIR data set makes the comparison between years almost pointless (as the DBIR itself points out).
I also generated a proper/traditional slopegraph, comparing 2008 to 2012:
The visualization is far more compact and, if the goal was to show the change between 2008 and 2012, it provides a much clearer view of what has and has not changed.
