Tile Grid Waffle Chart Map in Excel
The ONE Campaign published a Tile Grid Map of Africa a couple of weeks ago in their new feature on how the internet can help end extreme poverty. The map is really interesting because it combines a Tile Grid Map…
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Beyond the Map: How Marimekko Charts Offer a New Perspective on Election Results
Maybe the most common data visualizations to show election results are maps. Maps, maps, maps. People love maps. The challenge with maps related to elections, however, is that they don’t always accurately present the results. In the simple and oft-repeated…
On…Diverging Color Palettes in Maps
The “On…” series is a collection of short blog posts relating to data visualization, economics, presentation skills, or data communication. In each, I discuss an issue, concept, or idea that I have not fully developed, a work in progress, or…
Choosing Map Bins
A few years ago, I had a slew of meetings all in a row where different people kept asking me to help them make a map. “I have some state-level data,” they’d say, “can you help me make a map?”…
Pixel Maps in Excel
I saw this interesting post from Len Kiefer yesterday about creating a Pixel map of the U.S. using R (which he based off this blog post by Colin Fay). While tile grid maps and hexagon maps address some of the issues…
Map Pairs are Bad at Visualizing Correlations
On Wednesday and Thursday, the Urban Institute published two posts on gun violence in America I co-authored with a colleague (post #1 and post #2). One of the data visualizations in the first post was inspired not by the issue per se, but by…
Hexagon Tile Map in Excel
This is a guest post from David Napoli, a BI & Analytics Director (and recovering rocket scientist) who has worked as lead actuary, statistician, and headed up analytics departments for several healthcare organizations over the last 20 years. In a…
Bringing Data to Life: Physical Data Projects at Urban
In today’s Data at Urban blog post, I detail my ongoing Data Physicalization at Urban (what I call “DPAU”) project with my colleagues at the Urban Institute. This page provides updated descriptions and photos from the weekly project series. If…
Episode #245: Making with Data
View on Zencastr Creating data visualizations in the physical world is not a new phenomenon. Humans have been drawing on walls, tallying money and crops, and carving on stone tablets for thousands of years. Today, though the practice of data…