Tag: Charts

Two pie charts side by side, the left one with a smiley face drawn on top, the right one with a vomiting face of disgust.H
Nick Desbarats

Have I Resolved the Pie Chart Debate?

To use pie charts or not, that is the question! Here are a few arguments in favor of pie charts that have been missing from the debate.
Line chart elements on the dashboard resemble pasta sticks on a plate. Delicious!W
Alex Kolokolov

When Charts Looks Like Spaghetti, Try These Saucy Solutions

Tangled heaps of lines and numbers are a recipe for disaster. Here's how to make a dashboard with more visually appetizing charts.
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Krisztina Szucs

How to Create Animated Stacked Triangle Charts Without Code

With Plot Parade you can make a stacked triangle chart without code. The tool can also turn the chart into a GIF animation. Here's how.
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Nick Desbarats

Connected Scatterplots Make Me Feel Dumb

Connected scatterplots are often used to show the relation between two variables over time. Why use them when there are better alternatives?
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TK Sajeev Kumar

Infographics Journalist Charles Apple on Making Effective Charts

Charles Apple, the "Further Review" page editor of The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington, talks about graphics reporting.
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Matthew Mason & Massimiliano Belli

Step Aside Line Graphs And Bar Charts! This Is a Job For Me.

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.
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Victoria Radnothy

Worth the Right Swipe? Using Data to Find Love on Dating Apps

Curious about online dating life but hesitant to try out the apps, a love-seeker visualizes dating data to boost chances of success.
A highly complex graphic where the x-axis is population density (people per km^2) and the y-axis is energy consumption per person (kWh/d/p) Both axis are onlog scales. The countries are shown as colored bubbles that are sized according to land area. Diagonal lines show power consumption per unit of area.D
Satya Amaran

Defying Chart Design Rules for Clearer Data Insights

Sir David MacKay, a UK scientist, challenged conventional chart design and created a truly insightful data visualization about sustainable energy.
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Melissa Malguy

Visualizing Metal and Mayhem

Geared for modern day metal cover bands, this data viz project layers data from different sources to show which bands rock the charts.
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Cédric Scherer

The #30DayChartChallenge Is Ready to Kick Off

The #30DayChartChallenge is a data visualization community challenge to create a visualization on a particular theme each day in April. The challenge began in 2021 and is about to launch its third year.
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Srini Kadamati

A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece

A deep look at how the Dark Sky weather app used simple but highly effective charts to report and contextualize the weather.
A kids drawing of a "Sick, sad family", generated by DALL-E 2, an AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.I
Zach Rottman

I Visualized My One-Year-Old’s Relentless Daycare Bugs and It Calmed Me Down

When viruses started coming home from daycare and making his family sick, this dad made a data visualization to keep things in perspective.
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Gulrez Khan

From Chocolates to Bar Graphs

“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,..
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Jason Forrest

Behind the Scenes of “Unimaginable Death”

Below is an interview with the authors of “Unimaginable Death: Visualizations of COVID-19 Pandemic Milestones,” which appears this month as a supplement to Nightingale Magazine,..
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Eli Holder

Unfair Comparisons: How Visualizing Social Inequality Can Make It Worse

Our new research shows how popular chart choices can trigger unconscious social biases and reinforce systemic racism. At first glance, the charts below seem harmless...
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Nick Desbarats

Why I Stopped Using Bullet Graphs (and What I Now Use Instead)

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..