Tag: Charts

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Mark Mohammadpour, APR, Fellow PRSA (he/him)

Cultivating Empathy in Data Stories

Oxford Dictionary defines empathy as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” The last few years have highlighted the importance of experiencing..
A stylized 3D representation of a data distribution, featuring a bell-shaped curve with human-like icons on top of different segments, highlighting varying demographics.A
Darren Shearer

Above the Averages

When analysing workforce data, age is often a critical metric that provides insight into the overall health and future trajectory of an organisation. However, simply..
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Bahareh Zahirodini & Moinak Bhaduri

The Stuff We Cannot Sweep Under a Torn Carpet: Perfectly Imperfect Tessellations From Slices of Maslow’s Triangle

Few folks doubt the value of repetitions in any information-giving context. Shrewdly deployed, repetitions can be a powerful tool to ensure something stays memorable. Comedians..
Collected search results from the Kaggle data website showing 361,880 datasets .A
Christopher Laubenthal

AUGH! WHY IS THIS DIFFICULT? Picking a Dataset to Viz

“If you give a donkey two servings of food, equidistant apart and of equal quality, then the animal starves.” This was a saying I heard..
Diamond-shaped flowchart illustrating project stages from "Expand/Ideate" to "Deliver/Deploy," highlighting points of maximum risk of overwhelm and exhaustion.S
Erica Gunn

Step 9 in the Data Exploration Journey: Chart Choices

Both the purpose and the audience for our charts shifted during that transition, and it was important to think carefully about what we needed the charts to do.
A large dashboard full of enemies from the video game Super Mario Brothers in a straight line across the bottom. The center involves two charts that display the levels of various enemies in each world of the game.H
Christopher Laubenthal

Hidden Design: The Notes We Don’t Play

The complexity tooltips provide design has always held my attention. Tooltips are about the audience responding to our work! They allow us the opportunity to make certain information accessible indirectly, only discoverable if certain actions are taken.
A network graph representing connections between various entities, which are depicted as triangles of different colors. The triangles are connected by numerous blue lines indicating relationships or interactions between the entities. The colors and sizes of the triangles seem to represent different groups and their significance, with a legend on the left side: Blue triangles represent entities with values greater than 8K. Yellow triangles represent entities with values between 7K and 8K. Red triangles represent entities with values between 6K and 7K. The graph is highly interconnected, suggesting a complex web of relationships among the entities, each labeled with a unique identifier.H
Alice Zhang & Moinak Bhaduri

High Altitude Cartography

These interactive maps reveal that the difficulty of a climb is not solely dependent on a mountain's height, offering valuable insights for climbers in planning their expeditions and understanding the nuanced challenges they may face.
A cutting board of pancakes in the shape of data visualization charts, sprinkled with powdered sugar.D
Alex Kolokolov

Data Breakfast with the Analytics Family! Data Syrniki, and Pancake Charts

The idea was so well-received by the guests that several teams formed and they organized a competition for baking dashboards! Bar charts, pie charts, and line charts were created, along with real, not just playful, pancake charts and data syrniki!
A series of eight colorful, stacked bar charts arranged in two rows, each chart representing different groups within a hierarchy labeled as "g.RMY," "g.RMO," "g.RWY," "g.RWO," "g.DMY," "g.DMO," "g.DWY," and "g.DWO." Each graph plots the distribution of support levels (x-axis, ranging from 0.0 to 1.0) for various items or policies labeled from Q12_A to Q12_P, depicted in multiple colors from blue at the top to green at the bottom. The y-axis represents the inverse logit of confidence interval, varying across charts from 50 to 250. These visualizations are intended to show the confidence in support levels for each item across different demographic or focus groups, with each bar representing the level of support for a specific policy or opinion.P
Bahareh Zahirodini & Moinak Bhaduri

Pyramids of Priorities and a Poisoned Omen: Differing Hierarchies of Desired Business Ethics

Explore how demographic differences shape business ethics perceptions and priorities, using statistical data to highlight variations.
A bubble chart titled "Measuring Impact One Project at a Time," created by CannonDesign. The chart visualizes various projects and their labor hours across different departments, including Sales, Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Customer Service, Operations, Product Development, Administration, Research & Development, and Legal & Compliance. Each bubble represents a project, with the size of the bubble indicating the amount of labor hours dedicated to that project. The projects are listed on the left side, and the departments are listed at the top. The chart uses different colors to represent each department, making it easier to distinguish between them.O
Melissa Alexander

On Business and Beauty in Data Visualization

In the business of consulting, our clients rely heavily on data visualization to make sense of complex information and drive decision-making. If you’ve ever interacted with the c-suite of a large institution, you know that capturing their attention and conveying insights effectively can be a daunting task.
The infographic displays Singapore’s low and stable 2-year recidivism rates with a line chart for 2006-2020, alongside a large iceberg illustration representing the hidden complexities of successful reintegration into society. It includes text sections on perseverance and external support, emphasizing the unseen challenges of reintegrating former offenders.T
Kaushik Kompella

Tips & Tricks to Improve your Dashboard Design

Learn how to use data context, visual flow, color, typography, and appeal to create engaging data visualizations for business users.
A column chart covering years 2018 to 2024 with each year's number increasing. On top of that is a line chart that is measuring the cumulative total of the column chart. In both charts low totals are in grey and large totals in green.R
Christopher Laubenthal

Rapid Fire: Scaling a Portfolio with Design Components

There are many ways that can speed your development cycle from data cleanliness to clarity of your user’s needs. My efficiency lay in the use of component-driven design.
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Natalia Kiseleva

Flowers and Numbers

Explore the process of creating data visualization badges for a community using flowers and numbers. Creating a local data art community!
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Tyler Sloan

Color Jitter: Using Randomness to Augment Categorical Visualizations

A colormap can enrich a story by anchoring the value mapping to our shared experience or symbolism.
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Liuhuaying Yang & Paul Kahn

Visualization Through Interdisciplinary Creativity

Complexity Science is a new scientific practice that is inherently interdisciplinary. It links state-of-the-art mathematics, modeling, data, and computer science with fundamental questions posed by various disciplines, such as medicine, economics, ecology, or social sciences.
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CLEVER°FRANKE

The Evolution and Future of Interactive Data Visualization (Part 3)

The Web 2.0 era saw the rise of user-generated content and interactivity, sparking new possibilities for interactive data visualizations.