Clever Legends
I’ve been thinking about how to make my chart legends more engaging. I prefer to directly label my data rather than using legends that are separated from the data, but when I need a legend—say, on a map or a…
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Four(plus) Ways to Visualize Geographic Time Data
I’ve recently been exploring data about average school starting times using data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary federal agency that collects and analyzes data related to education in the U.S. and other nations. As part of…
Five Charts You’ve Never Used but Should
Now more than ever, content must be visual if it is to travel far. Readers everywhere are overwhelmed with a flow of data, news, and text. Visuals can cut through that noise and make it easier for readers to recognize and…
One Chart at a Time Video Series
Check out the new One Chart at a Time video series!
Geographic Distribution of IRS Auditing Rates
Paul Kiel and Hannah Fresques at ProPublica wrote this really interesting article a few weeks ago about the geographic distribution of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audit rates. They found that states with the lowest audit rates “tend to be home…
Episode #147: Lazaro Gamio
Lazaro Gamio is a deputy managing editor at Axios, where he oversees a group of visual journalists that make charts, maps, interactive graphics and editorial illustrations. He previously worked at the Washington Post as an assignment editor on the graphics…
Teaching Data Visualization to Kids
Think of all the things you learned in elementary school: How to read. How to write. How to count. How to do add, subtract, multiply, and divide. These are all learned skills, things that we are not innately born knowing…
Episode #107: Jane Pong
Jane Pong is a Data Visualization Journalist at the Financial Times. Previously, she produced information graphics at Thomson Reuters in Singapore and South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney with a combined Arts/Science…
A Step-by-Step Guide to Advanced Data Visualization in Excel 2016
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…