Don’t let people fool you. PowerPoint, like Prezi, Keynote, and others is—for better and for worse—a tool. It doesn’t matter whether it was developed by a big, bureaucratic software company or whether it has been used poorly by (countless) others,…
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This stacked column chart from the USDA shows how effective tax rates will decline across seven farm commodity specializations resulting from last year’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). I needed to take a second look at this graph before…
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For a while now, I’ve been interested in trying to figure out how different research fields think about and use data visualization in their work. As an economist, I visualize data all the time–some of it makes it into the…
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Last week, I published a copy of my Data Visualization Cheatsheet, an introductory summary sheet I provide to people who take my classes and workshops. Today, I’m similarly publishing my Presentation Cheatsheet, a summary sheet I pass around at my…
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In June, Stefanie Posavec and I teamed up to offer two data visualization workshops, one in DC and another in Chicago. We had so much fun, and the feedback so positive, that we’ve decided to hold another round of workshops! If…
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I’m a big believer that anyone can learn how to communicate their data in better ways. I’ve published more than 130 podcast episodes, and I don’t think any of my guests have come directly to data visualization, but instead have…
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If you’re currently using Excel 2016, you know that the Waterfall chart is now a default chart type. You can select your data and insert the chart as any other line, bar, or area chart. One problem I’ve found, however,…
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This was the question posed to a group of 15 academic researchers across several social science fields at a recent conference I attended. As a researcher whose role is to help others improve how they communicate their work, I thought…
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Communicating uncertainty is a difficult task. Many readers don’t fully appreciate or understand uncertainty, what it means, and where it comes from. A similar case can be made for visualizing distributions. I’ve heard many complaints about the good ol’ box-and-whisker…
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When you look at this column chart from the USDA, what is the first thing you see? Go ahead, take a second… My guess is—admittedly, based on a sample size of three people I’ve already asked—that your first observation is…
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