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How do we approach and present data responsibly, with intention and purpose? The Do No Harm Guide for data visualization, published by Jon Schwabish and Alice Feng (Urban Institute) earlier this year, presented a…
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My friends Ann K. Emery and Jon Schwabish have been discussing a graph published by CNBC about Holiday budgets. Ann reported that her husband…
I got to cross an item off the bucket list when offered the opportunity to work with another data visualization professional. Luck stroke when…
Data visualization is not an easy job. This can get lost in the quibbles about whether bar charts are boring and pie charts are…
See Andy Kirk’s own blog post about this topic. Truthiness was coined in 2005 and was awarded word of the year in 2006. We…
tl;dr: Draw a line graph based on normalized data for each category. What are parallel coordinates? Parallel coordinates resemble line graphs for time series,…
I have just learned of Hans Rosling’s passing and this is as close to a professional bereavement as it gets. There’s no doubt that…
Andy Kirk, from VisualisingData.com, is very well known in the data visualization community, as shown by his 14,400 Twitter followers. He built his fame by…
Source: Wikipedia. The map representing the Russian campaign of the French army in 1812 is a true celebrity of the data visualization world, mostly known for…
One of our data overlords, Google, organized a massive open online course (MOOC) called Making sense of data from March 18 to April 4. It…
The data visualization community seems to be looking for a bone to pick, but it hasn’t found one yet. At Visualized, it tried storytelling; at…
