OK, maybe “love” is too strong a word. Let’s say that 3D column/bar charts are like a tall and ugly building: better appreciated from the top, where you can’t see it but you can enjoy a great view. Like this: Now, change the viewing angle, remove gaps
Read more →From: CMO To: All Staff Re: Changes in internal data analysis and reporting Consistent with current efforts to streamline our operations, management team has decided to change the way the company analyses and communicates business data. Recent assessments made clear that we are using just a small fraction of
Read more →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 and I can spot two in this single sentence: technology and data. Yes, redistricting should
Read more →Let’s assume that a bad chart is a chart that breaks basic perceptual laws, contains too much fluff, do not respect data relationships and do not clearly answer the underlying question (if you can find one). Why do people make such charts? Below you can find some
Read more →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 we should ask.
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The best chart is always task-dependent, but let me assume that you would choose the scatterplot as the best chart and the pie as the worst. They are like water and oil: impossible to mix them! Are they? Let me tell you about a little experiment. I
Read more →(…) On the top of the mountain was a plain. There stood an old stone house, and in front of the house lay a great fish-pond, but behind it was a dark forest. He saw neither men nor animals, everything was quiet; only the wind rustled among the trees, and
Read more →![The Unbearable Lightness of Pie Charts [Data Visualization for Excel Users]](http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/wp-content/themes/u-design/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/pie-chart-clices-chunks.png&w=570&h=172&zc=1&q=90)
Well, a data visualization book cannot avoid pie charts, so here it is, a page about pie charts for my tutorial Data Visualization for Excel Users. Enjoy and comment, please…
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We stop loving someone or something when we feel there is nothing more to discover, when we have no more questions, when we don’t care about the answers. I started writing my Data Visualization for Excel Users series because I have an unhealthy number of open questions.
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A new page for my tutorial Data Visualization for Excel Users is available. It’s about Gestalt laws. Don’t forget to leave a comment!
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