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The primary workflow of many organizations goes through the Microsoft Office system. They use PowerPoint for presentations, Word for documents and reports, and Excel for data analysis and visualization. For some of these organizations, applying their branding styles and guidelines…
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In May, I published an ebook A Guide to Advanced Data Visualization in Excel 2010 that walks you through how to create more than 15 advanced chart types in Excel step by step. Today, I’m happy to release the Excel…
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As a reader of this blog, you probably know I use Microsoft Excel for a lot of my data visualization needs. Excel is easy to use, everyone has it, and it works well with most other programs. One of the…
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Today I’m pleased to announce that my book on creating and delivering better presentation design is available for pre-order! Better Presentations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks (published by Columbia University Press) ships this fall. I wrote this book because…
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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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Serena Roberts is co-founder and Chief Get-shit-done Officer at Moxy Analytics. She specializes in data visualization, data literacy and community-building in service of enabling data culture. Serena holds almost two decades of experience working in data and analytics in a…
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Welcome back to a whole new season of the PolicyViz Podcast! I’m excited to bring you a whole new exciting slate of guests this year covering a huge array of data visualization and data communication strategies, technologies, and techniques. Maureen…
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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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There isn’t necessarily a “correct” way to style your axis lines or gridlines in our data visualizations. It is worth noting, however, that how we draw our axes can impact how our readers perceive specific values. In the case of…
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The following post is a summarized version of the article accepted to the 2020 Visualization for Communication workshop as part of the 2020 IEEE VIS conference to be held in October 2020. The full paper has been published as an OSF Preprint…
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