Tag: Tools

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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..