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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…

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…

Gridlines are one of those elements of most data visualizations that many of us just accept. They are just part of the graph, not too big and not too bold, so just let them be. Personally, I prefer to forgo…

Learn how to create cycle plots in Microsoft Excel.

About three years ago, I created a Tile Grid Waffle Chart Map for the African continent. At the time, I played around with creating a version for the United States, but never got around to using it. Recent work gave…

As you probably know, Excel does not have a native image-exporting feature, so it requires a separate process to create a high resolution, standalone Excel chart. Many people create standalone graphs by taking screenshots of their Excel window, but screenshots…