#charts

Infographics Journalist Charles Apple on Making Effective #Charts
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Charles Apple, the “Further Review” page editor of The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington, talks about graphics reporting.

#Data_Journalism

Step Aside Line Graphs And #Bar_Charts! This Is a Job For Me.
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If line #Charts and bar charts don’t quite fit the data, #step_charts can be a great alternative. Here’s a primer on when—and #How_To—use them.

#Design #line_charts

Worth the Right Swipe? Using Data to Find Love on Dating Apps
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Curious about online dating life but hesitant to try out the apps, a love-seeker visualizes dating data to boost chances of success.

#Charts #Data_Humanism

Defying Chart #Design Rules for Clearer Data Insights
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Sir David MacKay, a UK scientist, challenged conventional chart design and created a truly insightful #Data_Visualization about sustainable energy.

#Charts #Data_Literacy

Visualizing Metal and Mayhem
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Geared for modern day metal cover bands, this data viz project layers data from different sources to show which bands rock the #Charts.

#Data_Visualization #Design

I Visualized My One-Year-Old’s Relentless Daycare Bugs and It Calmed Me Down
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When viruses started coming home from daycare and making his family sick, this dad made a #Data_Visualization to keep things in perspective.

#Charts #Personal_Data #personal_dataviz #SQL

From Chocolates to Bar Graphs
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“Abbu, I’ll make a graph of all the chocolates you eat while I’m asleep and will send it to your team,” my daughter Pariza complained,..

#Charts #Community #Data_Literacy #Data_Visualization #Kids_Dataviz

Why I Stopped Using Bullet Graphs (and What I Now Use Instead)
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tl;dr: After teaching many data professionals about bullet graphs and using them in many #dashboards, I started to notice that they had a fair number..

#Business_Intelligence #Charts #Data_Literacy #Data_Visualization #How_To

Five Inspiring #Data_Visualization Galleries
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If designed with care and preparation, data visualization can immensely improve viewers’ understanding of what is happening. Yes, data exploration and data analysis are essential,..

#Charts #Tools

Game of Thrones — Network of the Dragon
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One of my first #Data_Science projects was titled, Who Dies Next in the Game of Thrones?—a short article based on my data mining semester..

#Charts #Data_Visualization #How_To #Network_Graphs #social_network_mapping

Insights Of Their Own: Visualizing Women’s Baseball
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Viz by the author.

#Charts #Community #Data_Visualization #Historic_Dataviz #How_To #sports #spotlight

#How_To Visualize a Graph with a Million Nodes
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Large-scale graph visualizations are tricky. The more nodes and edges you have in your network, the more difficult it is to compute the layout for..

#Charts #Cosmograph #Data_Science #Data_Visualization #Network_Graphs #Tools #WebGL

What a Book Published in the 80s Taught Me about #Data_Visualization
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I was on holiday recently in the Welsh border town of Hay on Wye, when I came across a book that instantly caught my attention...

#Charts #Design #How_To #Reviews

Beyond the Bar: Alternative Methods for Visualizing Two Points of Change
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People love comparisons, whether between two groups or the difference in an outcome between two time points. Many data (visualization) designers use a clustered bar..

#Bar_Charts #Business_Intelligence #Charts #Dashboard_Design #Data_Visualization #How_To #line_charts

I Asked an Artificial Intelligence to Draw a Chart
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A new generation of text-to-image generative models are rapidly changing what is possible in generative design. Two apps in particular, Midjourney and Dalle-E 2, have..

#AI #Art #Charts #generative_model #illustration #ISOTYPE #Neurath

#spotlight: The Pinterest of Data Visualisation
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150 stunning chart examples, and growing! I’ve just created a website called dataviz-inspiration.com and it showcases hundreds of stunning dataviz projects I’ve encountered in the..

#Charts #Community #Data_Visualization #How_To

#spotlight: #How_To Say ‘I Love You’ with a Graphic
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For the past two years, the #Data_Visualization narratives we’ve become familiar with infection curves, maps of health zones, and models of how the virus..

#Charts #Data_Humanism #Data_Literacy
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The Visual Evolution of the Tommy Westphall Universe
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Television series finales often offer their long-time viewers heartfelt moments, character arc completions, plot line conclusions, tears, laughs and more. Unlike any other series finale,..

#Charts #Data_Art #Data_Visualization #Design #How_To #spotlight

Bracket Carousel: Discovering the Next Generation of Bracket #Design
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Another year, another successful March Madness! From renowned bracketologists, to casual bettors, and even former Presidents, millions of people embark on a quest to achieve..

#brackets #Charts #Data_Visualization #How_To #sports

#How_To Create a Pivot #Marimekko_chart in Plain JavaScript
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You have probably already seen many different articles on bar and pie #Charts. It’s enough to suggest that they are the only chart options available..

#Business_Intelligence #Data_Visualization #free_tools #Tools

REVIEW: Detroit in 50 #Maps by Alex B. Hill
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In professional and #Community circles, Detroit can sometimes feel like a small town. I started hearing about Alex B. Hill and his site, Detroitography, early..

#book #Charts #Data_Humanism #Data_Literacy #Data_Visualization #How_To #Reviews

Does #Data_Visualization Have #rules? Or Is It All Just “It Depends”?
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tl;dr: In the data visualization community, there are those who believe that there are universal rules such as “Never use pie #Charts”, or, “Always include..

#Business_Intelligence #decision_trees #Design #design_decisions #How_To

#drawing Data with Kids
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For many of us, the pandemic has merged the two worlds of “home” and “office.” On the rare occasions that I used to work from..

#Charts #Data_Visualization #How_To #Kids_Dataviz

#dashboards Are Not Data Stories
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A few months ago, a longtime client asked if my data communication consultancy could build out a dashboard display for health collaboratives in California doing..

#Charts #data_storytelling #Data_Visualization #How_To #information_design #storytelling

I’ve Stopped Using #box_plots. Should You?
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tl;dr: After having explained #How_To read box plots to thousands of workshop participants, I now believe that they’re poorly conceived (box plots, not workshop..

#Business_Intelligence #Charts #Data_Science #Data_Visualization #statistics