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Displaying Progress

Hi, I’ve attached two simple graphs (and data) that illustrate my attempts to display progress (or ‘direction of travel’) made by clients in a service. They were assessed when they come into the service, and again when they exit, in…

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Line or Column?

I want to show several performance metrics in an hourly breakdown, let’s take Facebook Ad Clicks (for a specific advertiser/campaign) as an example (data). Each value in the X-axis represents one hour. Since the timeframe is only 24h, and the breakdown is…

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Fixing a Control Chart

Hi, I’m trying to elevate my control chart to the ‘next level’ by applying the Nelson 5 statistical rules. In other words, I want to be able to highlight the points on the graph that display the Nelson statistical rules….

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Remake: Stacked Column Chart

From Mynda Treacy: Getting the formatting in your chart right can make the difference between clear, concise information and just a pretty picture. Take a look at this stacked column chart using some of the built in Excel chart formats:…….

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Christopher Nolan Filmography

Saw this in New York magazine. It’s a column chart of Christopher Nolan’s nine films and includes domestic running time, box office returns, and the rotten tomatoes score. There’s got to be a better way to do this. I’ve created…

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Donations vs. Disease

Randy Krum from Cool Infographics writes in: In August, Vox.com published The Truth about the Ice Bucket Challenge and included an infographic (“Where We Donate vs. Diseases That Kill Us”) that used proportionally-sized circles as its data visualization. The problem…

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Donor Bubbles

A story in yesterday’s Washington Post about unlimited individual campaign donations included this interactive bubble chart. In it, donation data for Democratic and Republican donors are encoded into bubbles and grouped together. A comment below the article asked the following:…

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Remake: Product Column Chart

From Storytellingwithdata: the story you want to tell…and the one your data shows I was working on a makeover for a recent workshop when it became apparent that the story being told wasn’t quite right, or at least wasn’t exactly…

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