Tag: Tools

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Simone Betito

Explorer les Plugins Graphiques avec Figma

Pour voir la version anglaise, click here. J’ai utilisé de nombreux outils dans ma carrière dans la visualisation de données. J’ai commencé principalement avec le logiciel..
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Simone Betito

Exploring Chart Plugins in Figma

View this article en français ici. I’ve used a lot of tools in my data visualization career. I started my career mainly using Tableau. In grad school,..
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Katie Kilroy

What is Data Scaffolding?

Even if you’ve never heard of data scaffolding, it’s likely that you have (or will face!) a data problem of your own for which scaffolding..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

From Triad to Qualitative

In this writing, I discuss how to work with a Triad color harmony to create a qualitative color scheme. Qualitative color schemes use colors to label different..
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Krist Wongsuphasawat

Navigating the Wide World of Data Visualization Libraries

Graphics and visualization developers often get presented with a simple yet difficult question: “Which visualization library should I use?” Typically, making this decision is not about..
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Zach Bowders

Viz What You Love

After a long day of meetings, projections, and rigorous data analysis there’s nothing I look forward to more in the evening than sitting down and..
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Bill Shander

The Past, Present, and Future of Scrollytelling

Just as earthquakes are (tangentially) related to presidential elections, so too are avalanches related to data storytelling and visualization. Before I tell you how, though,..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Simply Scattered: Enhancing Color With Geometry in a Visualization

In my previous “Colorizing a Visualization” writing, I covered the analogous and complementary color harmonies. Today, I will discuss a hybrid of the two harmonies..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

From Camera Roll to Color Harmony: Greening a Visualization

A smart phone with a camera allows us to easily capture images of colors and the world around us. With an app like Adobe Capture, it..
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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

Color Brewing the Perfect Storm

Today, I describe my previous 2008 efforts to colorize a Perfect Storm data simulation while I was at the Renaissance Computing Institute at North Carolina State University...
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

The Blues of Color Harmony

As noted previously in “Colorizing a Visualization,” Color Harmony is the process of choosing colors on a Color Wheel that work well together in the composition of..
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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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Michael Yi

How to Choose Colors for Your Data Visualizations

Color is a major factor in creating effective charts. A good set of colors will highlight the story you want the data to tell, while..
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Phil Hawkins

So You Want to Pick a Dataviz Platform

Ok Phil, your first ever column got 2,000 clicks in two days. Now. You need to keep that momentum going, boy! Failure to make a..