My daughter broke her arm over the weekend. She went ice skating with some friends, someone slid into her and she fell, breaking the bone in her arm just above the wrist. Several long hours later (more agonizing for her…
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Have you ever created an Excel chart where the labels stretch out to infinity or are incomplete so you can’t read them? I’ve got a couple of tricks for you, which I’ll lay out here and in this short video…
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There are a lot of things to like about this relatively simple bar chart from a New York Times story about reducing gun shootings in the United States: The use of the red color on the first and last bar…
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Will Chase at Axios published what I think is a lovely dot plot a couple of weeks ago. A chart I made for @axios. Good example of a relatively simple chart where lots of little details make a big difference…
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Gridlines are one of those elements of most data visualizations that many of us just accept. They are just part of the graph, not too big and not too bold, so just let them be. Personally, I prefer to forgo…
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Some thoughts on starting bar charts at zero based on a post from Storytelling with Data.
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I’m a big fan of Stripe Charts–lines or dots that show individual elements in your data, often used to show the distribution. I recently came across this very cool scrollytelling piece from Connor Rothschild on the use of paint colors…
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The current season of the PolicyViz Podcast–the 7th!!–comes to a close next week with the 200th episode! I’ve been doing the podcast now for six years and I’ve spoken to countless practitioners, researchers, and experts in the fields of data…
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A couple of weeks ago I took the morning off from work to go to the mall—the first time in over a year—to visit the Lego store and pick up two new sets: Everyone is Awesome and the Lego World…
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Today, I’m excited to publish a new in-depth report on how data practitioners can approach their work through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion: “Do No Harm Guide: Applying Equity Awareness in Data Visualization.” Co-authored with Alice Feng and…
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