A quick redesign of useless graphs
After seeing a poor infographic re-posted, I briefly ranted on twitter: Terrible presentation of data. The bars are OK, the rest is worthless. http://bit.ly/o76BOm @litmusapp #fb #li I don’t mean to be...
View ArticleProperties and Best Uses of Visual Encodings
Here’s my table of properties and best uses of visual encodings. Feel free to download the PDF.
View ArticleTalks: first half of 2012
Here are the various, videos, recordings, transcripts, notes, and slide decks from some of the talks I gave in the first half of 2012. With one exception, all of these are free to view or download....
View ArticleProcess notes handout
Here are some visualization process notes from my talks and tutorials.
View ArticleUnbroken Excel
Because I mention it all the time, here’s Cole Nussbaumer‘s template for good Excel graphs, where she’s fixed all of the bad Excel defaults.
View ArticleFour Pillars of Visualization
I’ve been creating a lot of content based on my Four Pillars of Visualization design principles. The Four Pillars are: Purpose (the why) Content (the what) Structure (the how) Formatting (everything...
View ArticleVisualization errors to avoid
I wrote a blog post on avoiding visualization errors over at Information Week.
View ArticleHow to pick a graph
I just tweeted this: Step 5: What graph do I use? 4: What data matters? 3: What Q’s need answering? 2: What actions do I need to inform? 1: What do I care about?
View ArticleMapping Migration critique
A friend asked me what I thought about the NYT Mapping Migration visualization. It’s interesting that they note this is a new (experimental) kind of visualization; frankly I think it doesn’t work very...
View ArticleGuaranteed Successful Design talk
Here’s a fun and useful lightning talk I gave at Startupfest Montreal 2016 entitled Guaranteed Successful Design. I hope you like it.
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