One question that I regularly hear in my data visualization talks and workshops goes something like this: “How do I get my boss/manager/colleagues to prioritize better data visualizations?” It’s a common conundrum: you have some interest in data visualization, but…
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I’m excited to announce the launch of a new asynchronous data visualization course, The Art and Science of Data Visualization. To deliver this course—that includes more than five hours of content—I’ve teamed up with Skillwave Training, who offer hundreds of…
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Big A** Numbers. If you’ve ever created or used an interactive data dashboard, you’ve probably seen a “Big A** Number.” It sits there, right at the top of the page, telling you exactly what you should know. In the data…
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In our fast-paced and interconnected world, researchers, analysts, and academics can play a crucial role by generating valuable insights and data. However, their efforts can go unnoticed or underappreciated if they fail to effectively communicate their work to policymakers, the…
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My friend Max Graze and I just published a new peer-reviewed journal article (which you can read for free) about creating the color section of your data visualization style guide. There are a lot of sections to possibly include in a data visualization…
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I’ve written before about how dual axis charts can mislead and confuse (here and here), but I’m adding another post to the series because recently the US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (ERS) published a chart that clearly shows how these…
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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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When I teach data visualization classes and workshops, I present the wide array of graphs, charts, and diagrams that are available to us when we communicate our data. I argue that these “non-standard” graph types can help us be more…
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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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