(sort labels #:key row-sum >)

In Understanding Graphs and Tables Howard Wainer advises:

Order the rows and columns in a way that makes sense. We are almost never interested in “Austria First.” Two useful ways to order the data are:

a. Size places-Put the largest first. Often we look most carefully at what is on top and less carefully further down. Put the biggest thing first! Also, ordering by some aspect of the data often reflects ordering by some hidden variable that can be inferred. b. Naturally – Time is ordered from the past to the future. Showing data in that order melds well with what the viewer might expect. This is always a good idea.

— Howard Wainer (fn:1)

Howard Wainer's advice came to mind while working with data from a book about Minamata Disease (and pollution or Damage to the Commons in general).

The code to visualize Jun Ui's table of employment data is an attempt to implement Howard Wainer's advice (and general ink-to-data ratio advice for data visualization) with free software: DrRacket and Racket Plot.

As always, the code and data are below.