My friend Stephanie Evergreen–who co-hosts the awesome Rad Presenters Podcast with me–published a post last week about labeling charts in Excel. In it, she offered some guidance about how to get rid of your default legends and directly label your charts…
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This post originally appeared on the Urban Institute’s Urban Wire blog I had a hard time visually picking out the story in a simple chart published by the Financial Times earlier this week. There was nothing special or particularly complex about the…
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I saw this chart earlier this week in Chris Cillizza’s Washington Post article about changes in President Obama’s approval ratings. Here’s the figure and the accompanying text: As the chart shows, four of the major pillars of President Obama’s electoral…
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I’m happy to host this guest post from Mynda Treacy of MyOnlineTrainingHub. Mynda writes about and teaches Excel skills, ranging from number formats to chart types and Excel Dashboards. The example Mynda writes about here is also being cross-posted on…
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My article about data visualization was published in the Winter 2014 edition of the Journal of Economic Perspectives last week. I’m supplying Excel files for the redesigned figures shown in the article as well as a zip file of PDFs of all…
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Creating bullet charts in Excel can be a bit tricky. This slidedeck lays out a step-by-step approach to creating bullet charts in Excel. The approach was first made public by Jorge Camoes. An alternative version was published in early 2011…
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