Oh. It’s that time of year already. Time to hate on the rainbow…
Design
Important in presenting data clearly and beautifully.
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Alternatives to the rainbow color scale
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Importance of form and survey design to gain an accurate picture
Lena Groeger, writing for Source, shifts attention upstream from analysis to the design…
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Choosing color palettes for choropleth maps
Choropleth maps, the ones where regions are filled with colors based on data,…
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Project Lincoln from Adobe aims to reverse data visualization workflow
With data visualization, you start with the data and let it guide geometry,…
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Infographic design sins in meme form
Visual editor Xaquín G.V. recently used the distracted boyfriend meme to represent our…
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Criticism vs. Creation
Filmmaker Kevin Smith talks about making things versus critiquing them. He’s talking about…
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Data exploration banned
Statistician John Tukey, who coined Exploratory Data Analysis, talked a lot about using…
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Use dual axes with care, if at all
Dual axes, where there are two value scales in a single chart, are…
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Data bias at every step
Lena Groeger for ProPublica describes when the designer shows up in the design,…
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Interactive visualization is still alive
Phew. Close call.
New York Times graphics editor Gregor Aisch noted during a… -
Motion design patterns
Issara Willenskomer talks in detail about the use of animation in UX design…
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Interactive or not to interactive visualization?
In a recent talk, New York Times graphics editor Gregor Aisch noted that…
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Visualization choice depends on the data and the questions
When you don’t know where to start with a dataset, try to come…
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Pie charts are okay
There were some ripples in the space time continuum recently about a pizza…
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Infographic tools before the computer
There was a time when charts and infographics were drawn by hand, because…
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Data with the feels
Data can be fact and analytical. It can help you make objective decisions.…
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Glow map
John Nelson has a knack for making maps that glow, where the base…
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Showing missing data in line charts
Missing data is everywhere. Or, I guess technically it’s nowhere. You know what…
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Decision-making with big numbers we can’t really see
In a 2005 paper “If I look at the mass I will never…
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Human perception for visualization
There is visualization in practice and there is visualization in theory and research.…
