Tag: Charts

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Fredrick Boshe

Three Reasons Why It Is Time to Adopt a Seafood Diet

Human diets can be as unique as fingerprints. We all have our quirks, from general preferences like red meat to vegetarian or vegan to finer..
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Rajesh Sigdel

Using Infographics to Make Climate Change More Visible to the Public

Climate change may not be a directly observable phenomenon, but its impacts are currently threatening the lives of all living organisms. Although the majority of..
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Erica Gunn

Why Can’t We Have More Fun?

This is part 8 in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous article reviewed chart choices..
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Matteo Moretti

Data Enabling: the Glocal Climate Change Design Process

What is the surgeon’s work? Saving lives or cutting/sewing bodies? Both. One answer refers to the what, the other answer to the how. In that vein, what is the..
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Erica Gunn

Dashboard Redesign: A Look at Chart Choices

This article is part of a series that illustrates how basic design principles can improve information display. In the last installment, we thought through the purpose..
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Erica Gunn

Dashboard Redesign: Understanding Purpose

This article is part of a series that illustrates how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous installments focused on understanding the audience and..
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Rohan Jhunja

Putting Three Meals on the Table

At Gramener, we each took up a personal data challenge over the month of December 2020. Since my family at home had been fighting over how..
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Emilia Ruzicka

Food for Thought: Part 1 of a Yearlong Personal Data Project

Hello! I’m a student, data journalist, and designer with a love for all things dataviz. In accordance with annual traditions, I spent a lot of..
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Erica Gunn

Who Is Your Chart For?

This is the fourth in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous article focused on cleaning up the..
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Alana Pirrone

Visualizing Likert Scale Data: Same Data, Displayed Seven Different Ways

Working with research and evaluations teams, I’m often faced with the question of how to effectively display Likert scale data. If you are not familiar..
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Alexandre Morin-Chassé

The Stellar Chart: An Elegant Alternative to Radar Charts

Radar charts, also called web charts, spider charts or star charts, are often used to display various characteristics of a profile simultaneously. Whether it presents..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Colorizing a Visualization

The flow chart above diagrams the process of colorizing a visualization using blank templates from the Interaction of Color app, an invaluable tool both for learning about..
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Andy Krackov

Flattening the Curve and Expanding My Understanding

I’ve worked in the field of health data visualization for about 20 years now, so I’m embarrassed to say that, before this week, I hadn’t..
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Erica Gunn

How to Use Whitespace, the Punctuation Between Visual Elements

This is the first in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The next installment will apply some..
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Alexandra Khoo

Sweet Love: Popular Wedding Songs Reimagined As Cupcakes

These days, it seems, you can’t attend a wedding without hearing the soft croon of Ed Sheeran at some point. It got me thinking, is..
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Rasmus Bøgelund Christiansen

How To Create a B2B Dashboard

What is a dashboard? A dashboard is a view of carefully selected information. In cars, it is a visualization of our speed, the oil and..