As a reader of this blog, you probably know I use Microsoft Excel for a lot of my data visualization needs. Excel is easy to use, everyone has it, and it works well with most other programs. One of the…
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I am teaching an introductory workshop to data visualization in Washington, DC on Thursday, June 8, 2016 from 9a-1230p EST. I’m excited to bring together people from different fields and sectors to help improve the way we communicate data. In…
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The Eurosearch Song Contest, a new visualization from Maarten Lambrechts and the Google News Lab, examines what would happen if Google searches were used to award points in the Eurovision Song Contest. It’s a really cool piece that allows you…
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Someone recently asked me how to create a legend for a heatmap in Excel. In R, adding a legend is part of the package (the image below from a thread on StackOverflow), so it’s pretty easy to do. Building a…
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I saw this interesting post from Len Kiefer yesterday about creating a Pixel map of the U.S. using R (which he based off this blog post by Colin Fay). While tile grid maps and hexagon maps address some of the issues…
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Last month, I finished teaching an”Intensive Learning Environment” (or ILE) course on data visualization at Georgetown University’s McDonough School for Business. The class takes place over six evenings (three hours each) and two full-day Saturdays. I try to fit in the…
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I’ve just returned from an exhausting and exhilarating week in Pamplona, Spain where I attended the Malofiej World Infographic Summit. Malofiej is one–if not the–premier infographic award competitions in the world. The first few days of the week are set aside…
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Well, my week of data and story posts has come to an end. And today I head off to Pamplona, Spain for what I expect will be an incredible and exhausting week at the Malofiej Infographic World Summit. I’ll be…
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So far in this series of posts on stories, I’ve discussed the definition of story, story structure, and applying data to story structure. In this final post, I look at the differences between analyzing data and talking to people and…
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In my last couple of posts, I discussed my definition of story and story structure. As people engaged with data and trying to visualize those data, we often say, “Let’s tell a story with these data,” and in the end, we…
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