A few weeks ago, I published an Excel tutorial on how to create the ill-named “box-and-whisker-and-scatterplot chart.” In response, Len Kiefer pointed me to a post on Maarten Lambrecht’s cool new project Xenographics that was essentially the same chart type, just…
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I’ve developed what I think is a new chart type: The Ganttimekko (I think it’s new because I haven’t seen it used anywhere, but if I’m wrong, please let me know.) As its name suggests, the Ganttimekko is a combination…
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This graph popped up in my Twitter feed a few weeks ago. I have no idea what I’d call it—a box-and-whisker-and-scatterplot chart? I’m also not sure whether it’s better than a violin chart, which shows the entire distribution, but it’s…
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Yes, tables are a form of data visualization. Many tables don’t include bars or circles or arcs, they do show data in much the same way as a graph. If you need to show the exact amount of every value…
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Back in January, Nathan Yau at Flowing Data published an interactive set of waffle charts that allows you to explore selected demographics of people in the U.S. The user can select across three demographic characteristics—gender (Male, Female); age group (18-24,…
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You have the poster on your wall and the desktop sheet tacked next to your computer. You’ve flipped through the card pack to learn specific definitions for specific graph types. Now comes a game! Today, I’m are excited to announce…
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Amanda Cox, the editor of the Upshot at the The New York Times, once said that, “The annotation layer is the most important thing we do…otherwise it’s a case of here it is, you go figure it out.” In my experience, annotating…
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Last week I posted messages to Twitter and Facebook pointing out that none of the 24 speakers at the upcoming 2018 Presentation Summit in San Diego was a person of color. Those messages prompted several important discussions in and around…
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There’s a new book about data visualization and data-driven storytelling about to hit bookshelves. Data-Driven Storytelling, edited by Nathalie Henry Riche, Christophe Hurter, Nicholas Diakopoulos, and Sheelagh Carpendale is an edited volume originating from a weeklong data storytelling conference at Schloss-Dagstuhl in…
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As you likely already know, I am a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research institution in Washington, DC. I spend half my time conducting economic research (mostly on SNAP and Disability Insurance) and the other half in…
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