UX designer and consultant, Hunter Whitney, describes a good mindset as you start…
Design
Important in presenting data clearly and beautifully.
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Approaching data, a UX perspective
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Chart doesn’t work for colorblind
In regards to a performance chart posted by Netflix, Andy Baio, who along…
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Target for charting excellence
The scales for what qualifies as pretty and useful change depending on the…
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Learn the rules of data graphics so you can bend them
If you take away anything from The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, make…
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New York Times on how they design their graphics
Leading up to their book, Turning Pages: Editorial Design for Print Media, publisher…
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Redesign of the Federal IT Dashboard
About a year after the launch of the Federal IT Dashboard, business intelligence…
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Process: Mapping War Logs for the Guardian
This is a guest post by Alastair Dant, interactive lead at the Guardian.…
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Why context is as important as the data itself
John Allen Paulos, a math professor at Temple University, explains, in the New…
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The path to successful infographics
Most people don't know what actually goes into a good infographic. There's a lot more to it than just the design. There's research, analysis, and fact-checking that you have to do long before you open Illustrator. Sarah Slobin, from the Wall Street Journal, explains how to create successful infographics.
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Major wood pallet fires?
I put this up only because I had no idea wood pallet risks…
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Visualizing data: ask a question first
There is no way to think up an original and extraordinary design—it can…
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Graphical perception – learn the fundamentals first
Before you dive into the advanced stuff - like just about everything in your life - you have to learn the fundamentals before you know when you can break the rules.
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Chart Junk vs. Eye Candy: What’s the Difference?
Photo by horizontal.integration There’s this one phrase that really bothers me when it…
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6 Easy Steps to Make Your Graph (Really) Ugly
We spend so much time trying to make our graphs accurate, simple, understandable,…
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Rise of the Data Scientist
Photo by majamarko As we’ve all read by now, Google’s chief economist Hal…
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Data Visualization is Only Part of the Answer to Big Data
How can we now cope with a large amount of data and still…
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Flow Chart Shows You What Chart to Use
Amit Agarwal, of Digital Inspiration, posts this Andrew Abela creates this flow chart…
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One Death is a Tragedy; a Million is a Statistic
Photograph by *Your Guide I posted a comic from xkcd last week that…
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Steve Jobs on Design
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like……
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Great Data Visualization Tells a Great Story
Think of all the popular data visualization pieces out there – the ones…
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