Charting tips 002: Consider the task at hand
Suppose you are sharing a list of orders with some co-workers. One of them wants to see the higher sales orders [list]. Another one wants to know how much was exported to France [fusion_old_table]. The...
View ArticleYou want answers, but do you have questions?
A chart is always an answer to an underlying question. If you don’t know the question be prepared for random answers (300-slide Powerpoint presentations, anyone?). Do yourself a favor and and write...
View ArticleChart-Making: Cures for Loss Aversion
Loss aversion – wrong chart example JunkCharts writes an interesting post on how loss aversion can happen in chart-making. The general concept of loss aversion tells us that “people strongly prefer...
View ArticleIs Your Chart Really Answering Your Question?
We are so busy creating sexy charts to illustrate some random data that we often forget to check if our chart really answers the question. Heck, most of the times we don’t even have one. Chart first,...
View ArticleData Visualization for Excel Users – How to Make a Chart, Part I: Asking...
A new page is available in my tutorial “Data visualization for Excel Users”. It’s the first page of a mini series on how to make a chart and we’ll learn how to ask questions and what type of questions...
View ArticleData cannot save us from ourselves
Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet wrote on Twitter: Redistricting should be done with data & open source software, not by humans. Let me be completely honest: I don’t like golden calves...
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