Comparing individual athletes across eras is basically impossible (except for Tom Brady, of course). There are changes in rules and equipment, strategy, player training and nutrition, and more that makes comparing one player’s performance 50 years ago to another player’s…
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If you attended the Data Visualization Society’s (DVS) Outlier conference a couple of weeks ago, you probably heard that they are going to host the Information is Beautiful Awards (IIB) competition going forward. The IIB awards started in 2012 (but…
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A colleague recently asked me for any publicly available, free resources they might use to up their data visualization game. There’s obviously a great big world out there of great resources to help you on your way to being an…
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We all know that color is a very powerful part of the data communicator’s toolkit. As Maureen Stone once wrote, “[c]olor used well can enhance and clarify a presentation. Color used poorly will obscure, muddle and confuse.” There is a…
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Not-so-long time ago, in our own galaxy, programmers, coders, and designers wrestled for dominion over the world of data visualization. They argued over base code and usability, drop-down menus vs coding, and whether they should be based on the desktop…
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A couple of months ago, I served as a judge for one of my daughter’s high school debate tournaments. The tournament was virtual, so it didn’t have quite the same (frenetic) energy that the in-person events have, but it was…
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I saw this really nice tile grid map with slope charts from Philip Bump in the Washington Post a few weeks ago. It shows changes in COVID-19 cases (per 1,000 residents) and deaths (per 100,000 residents) at three points during…
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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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