Category: Data Design Tips
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Deal with data? No doubt you've come across the time-based variety. This is a guide to help you figure out what type of visualization to use to see that stuff.
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With all the visualization options out there, it can be hard to figure out what graph or chart suits your data best. This is a guide to make your…
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Photo by horizontal.integrationThere's this one phrase that really bothers me when it comes to data graphics. No doubt you've heard it or read it, and maybe it even…
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Are you looking to get into data visualization, but don't quite know where to begin? With all of the available tools to help you visualize data, it can be…
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Photo by nyki_m Data visualization and infographics come in many forms. Some are comical and purely made for entertainment. Others are made for decisions, and important decisions at…
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We spend so much time trying to make our graphs accurate, simple, understandable, etc that we forget the lost art of making graphs that are inaccurate, unreadable, make absolutely…
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Photo by majamarko As we've all read by now, Google's chief economist Hal Varian commented in January that the next sexy job in the next 10 years would…
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This is a guest post by Martin Krzywinski who develops Circos, a GPL-licensed (free) visualization tool that can help you show relationships in data. This article is based on…
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How can we now cope with a large amount of data and still do a thorough job of analysis so that we don’t miss the Nobel Prize? Bill Cleveland,…
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Amit Agarwal, of Digital Inspiration, posts this Andrew Abela creates this flow chart that helps you decide, well, what type of chart to use. Start in the middle with…
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Photograph by *Your Guide I posted a comic from xkcd last week that implied graphs and data lead to a decline in love. I didn't really think much…
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Most of us create graphs with actual graphing software. Maybe it's Microsoft Excel. Maybe it's R. Whatever it is though it's usually specialized for analysis. What if you want…
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Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like… People think it's this veneer -- that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make…
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Think of all the popular data visualization pieces out there - the ones that you always hear in lectures, read about in blogs, and the ones that popped into…
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This is a guest post by Miguel Jiménez, a user experience and interaction designer based in Madrid. There’s a lot of noise today around Personal Branding and constructing your…
Visual Representation of Tabular Information – How to Fix the Uncommunicative Table
Flow Chart Shows You What Chart to Use
How to Make a Graph in Adobe Illustrator
Sketching Around Personal Brand Tracking