Ellie Balk is an artist obsessed with color, pattern, data and mathematics. She creates large scale data visualization public artworks using paint, glass, sound and most recently ceramics. Community engagement and interaction is at the core of her work. Ellie…
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A few months ago, I wrote a post about why and how to avoid dual axis charts. In that post, I focused exclusively on dual axis charts in which both series are lines, that is, showing changes over time. But there…
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You’ve seen plenty of them, I’m sure. A line chart with two or more lines with two vertical axes. You read the title, the legend, the axis labels, and start contemplating the patterns. Suddenly, you realize that the metrics of…
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Richard Brath is a long time visualization designer, researcher and strategist. At Uncharted Software, Richard focuses on the creation of high-value visual analytic applications that solve real-word problems in capital markets, supply chain and healt-care analytics. These solutions in use by…
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Karla Starr is a columnist for Medium and write the newsletter The Starr Report on Substack. She has appeared on NPR and CBS Sunday Morning and has written for The Atlantic, Slate, Popular Science, and The Guardian. She won an award for the Best Science/Health story from the Society of…
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On this week’s episode, I chat with the four founding members of the new data visualization mentorship community, Elevate Your DataViz.
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With more than 200 guests and eight seasons of episodes, the PolicyViz Podcast is one of the longest-running data visualization podcasts around. You can support the show by downloading and listening, following the work of my guests, and sharing the…
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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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Jock D. Mackinlay is the first Technical Fellow at Tableau Software. He believes that well-designed software can help a wide-range of individuals and organizations work effectively with data, which will improve the world. He is an expert in visual analytics and human-computer…
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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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